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

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jalopies

Sammy and Jake were washing a car. A blue jalopy with no roof and no doors

—p.11 The Musical Vanity Boxes (3) by Lucia Berlin
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prelapsarian

an example of prelapsarian high spirits which as of tonight will be another experience unavailable to me

—p.158 Eleven ten: The Rachel Papers, volume two (151) by Martin Amis
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jejune

I clocked up the jejune libidos of Shelley and Keats, and took Hardy's Befuddled Will into account

—p.145 Twenty-five of eleven: the Low (143) by Martin Amis
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unctuous

so intent were the unctuous commentators on concealing the fact that they had bugger-all to say

—p.141 Ten five: the spinney (127) by Martin Amis
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desultory

I locked myself in all the same, forced down the alcoholic syrup, and worked desultorily on the Reunion Speech.

—p.140 Ten five: the spinney (127) by Martin Amis
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