Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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peroration

If we consider that this peroration in favor of truly universal fraternité was written nearly one hundred and fifty years before the French revolution

—p.22 Lightness (3) by Italo Calvino
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picaresque

I tried to find some harmony between the adventurous, picaresque inner rhythm that prompted me to write and the frantic spectacle of the world, sometimes dramatic and sometimes grotesque.

—p.4 Lightness (3) by Italo Calvino
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reliquary

of coral in this strange place, suggesting a reliquary sea, and of the blessed semblance of God on the faces of superstitious mountains

—p.349 by Don DeLillo
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exegesis

The new Paramount comedy-western is worth any number of Bergman’s exegetical nightmares.

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—p.248 by Don DeLillo
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lissome

The girl followed, quite slowly, a lissome blonde of twenty-five or so, in her quiet prime, pretty and tarrying and yet to be hurt, not at all in love.

—p.215 by Don DeLillo
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