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

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expiate

For days Nino continued to behave as if writing better than him was a sin that had to be expiated

—p.302 Adolescence: The Story of the Shoes (87) by Elena Ferrante
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dross

The voice set in the writing overwhelmed me, enthralled me even more than when we talked face to face: it was completely cleansed of the dross of speech, of the confusion of the oral

—p.227 Adolescence: The Story of the Shoes (87) by Elena Ferrante
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ludic

The entire haunting, ludic mood of New Korean Cinema’s class-war films can be summed up by a scene in Bong’s Mother (2009)

—p.180 On the new proletkino (175) missing author
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antic

even that book is charged with an antic intensity

—p.171 On Mark Leyner (169) missing author
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joss

Autumn is waning, and the trees in the park outside are giving up their leaves like joss paper

'joss paper' means incense paper basically

—p.41 China Brain (29) by Andrea Long Chu
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