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

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abeyance

looking for something, yes, abeyant treasure – the bedrock of himself in other words

weird

—p.67 by Claire-Louise Bennett
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lambent

Imagine lying there beneath such a pendulous chandelier of lambent gloom

—p.55 by Claire-Louise Bennett
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invidious

Leonardo’s invidious compliments only provoked more of my bookish rhetoric

i assumed it meant rude

—p.116 by Alix Kates Shulman
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homily

My grandmothers, teachers, uncles and aunts, and especially my father, were always encouraging me with their constant homilies: if at first you don’t succeed try try again; hard work moves mountains

—p.26 by Alix Kates Shulman
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variegated

I can't wait to go into reverse, to make the things of the world exist again, one by one or all together, to set their variegated and tangible substance,

—p.249 What story down there awaits its end? (244) by Italo Calvino
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