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

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kallocratic

ascending Diotima’s ladder from the lower rung of desire for the sun-kissed body of the swimsuit model to the kallocratic worldview of beautiful actions based on knowledge of the eternal and beautiful forms of the starry heavens above us

a mouthful of a sentence

—p.21 The Drone Philosopher (17) by Marco Roth
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comport

such a book does comport with Peter’s idea of philosophy, and resolves his existential crisis into the bargain

—p.19 The Drone Philosopher (17) by Marco Roth
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vituperation

Across the hall, the purely academic panels in the 1980s were, for better or worse, more vituperative.

—p.11 World Lite (1) by n+1
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sedulous

Insurrectionary Gordimer has given way to the the sedulously horrified Coetzee

still not comfortable enough to use it on my own but now I def know what it means

—p.9 World Lite (1) by n+1
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salvo

the Iranian revolution - itself a salvo against cultural globalization

different from salve lol

—p.7 World Lite (1) by n+1
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