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

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limn

Chaudhuri’s opening to an essay in his new collection, The Origins of Dislike (2018), limns well the sort of thinly conscious generalized bias his modernism had to work against.

—p.173 On Amit Chaudhuri (167) missing author
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dyspepsia

When they say this, I feel dyspeptic and misunderstood

—p.72 Open House (59) missing author
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gemeinschaft

She has lived in the suburbs of Los Angeles all her life, but she is a sort of gemeinschaft of one; wherever she goes, a little town appears

—p.184 On Vivian Gornick (179) by n+1
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lazaretto

in a pandemic environment there is a high risk of any such institution — but particularly one where beds have been financialized — becoming a lazaretto, if not a charnel house

—p.54 Coronavirus and Chronopolitics (51) by Gabriel Winant
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senescent

His costume consisted largely of a pair of aviators and a motorcycle, in some kind of senescent Springsteen homage

—p.28 Send in the Clowns (23) by Namara Smith
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