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

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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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mendicant

the reader, reduced to something like mendicant vulnerability by its more nerve-wrenching moments

—p.426 Cormac McCarthy's Trilogy; or, The Puritan Conscience and the Mexican Dark (421) by Robert Hass
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