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

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Klieg light

In the klieg-light aftermath of his rape of thirteen-year-old Samantha Gailey, he said his desire to have sex with young girls was the most ordinary thing in the world.

—p.139 THE ANTI-MONSTER (134) by Claire Dederer
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weft

The Past is the place where anti-Semitism and racism and misogyny were woven into the very warp and weft of literature

—p.114 THE ANTI-SEMITE, THE RACIST, AND THE PROBLEM OF TIME (112) by Claire Dederer
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empyrean

I felt stuck in my own subjectivity, unable to ascend to empyrean heights of critical authority.

—p.67 THE CRITIC (61) by Claire Dederer
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weltanschauung

it’s Annie’s nonsensical, almost nonverbal weltanschauung that lifts the movie into flight

—p.21 ROLL CALL (14) by Claire Dederer
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rictus

his eyes frozen in a rictus of horror

—p.268 by Michel Houellebecq
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