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

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prolegomena

with some traditional fiction it would not be necessary to offer these prolegomenas

—p.40 Footnotes, Footsteps, Ghostprints (25) missing author
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apophenia

apophenia (Gibson's novel concerns a clip of video material which keeps cropping up on the cultural landscape, and where it comes from [...]) and apophenia is one of the truly interesting concepts

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—p.31 Footnotes, Footsteps, Ghostprints (25) missing author
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abeyance

Through cinema, his films tell us, time can be held in abeyance for a moment

—p.216 Goodbye, Dragon Inn (1) by Nick Pinkerton
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plangent

Not a year has passed since its birth when it hasn't been pronounced dead, and in Goodbye, Dragon Inn we find one of its most eloquent and plangent eulogies.

—p.205 Goodbye, Dragon Inn (1) by Nick Pinkerton
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vituperation

A curious side effect of open access: a level of vituperation rarely encountered from paying customers, the wrathful indignity of the freeloader!

—p.197 Goodbye, Dragon Inn (1) by Nick Pinkerton
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