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

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creosote

ten-foot-tall, creosote-coated logs rigged with powerful light bulbs and metal shades

—p.5 Seven Shorts (1) missing author
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bricolage

But the other reason is bricolage. Every time it happens, you fix it and then you go forward from there. There’s this perception with regards to financial crisis that, “Oh, one’s enough, you couldn’t possibly want to do that again.”

—p.12 All That Was Solid (11) by Adam Tooze
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catechism

China, whose outsized growth the global recovery vitally depends on, has flouted almost every item in Friedman’s catechism

—p.8 Taking Off the Straitjacket and Running the Asylum (7) by Seth Ackerman
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glissando

the long glissando wail of the clarinet that begins George Gershwin’s 1924 composition Rhapsody in Blue

—p.433 Black Nature (432) by Robert Hass
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lapidary

McCarthy is capable of lifting out of this hypnotic and lapidary directness into high Faulknerian crash-and-burn

—p.429 Cormac McCarthy's Trilogy; or, The Puritan Conscience and the Mexican Dark (421) by Robert Hass
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