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exegesis

But such a reconstruction from fragmentary sources, no matter how exegetically rigorous, should not be construed as the “true Marx.”

—p.19 Old Gods, New Enigmas: Notes on Revolutionary Agency (1) by Mike Davis
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calumny

the mischaracterizations of Marx’s ideas were quite fantastic (as were his calumnies against them)

—p.xvi Preface: Marx at the Chicken Shack (ix) by Mike Davis
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jalopies

Lucy don’t have much education. Poor Okie girl rides in on a jalopy out of the Dust Bowl.

—p.440 1974: I-Migrant Hotel (423) by Karen Tei Yamashita
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tabula rasa

Marriage was a new beginning equal to a romantic reading of the destructive nature of war: a tabula rasa.

—p.339 1972: Inter-national Hotel (295) by Karen Tei Yamashita
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joss

Like the lady at the front of the Cathay mortuary who is burning paper—joss paper, otherworld paper money, paper clothing, paper replicas of cars, televisions, houses, servants, everything going up in symbolic smoke to send along with Dad in the next world.

—p.5 1968: Eye Hotel (1) by Karen Tei Yamashita
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