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

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numinous

you can actually watch, as the words are laid down on the page, the process from which the perception of the thing gets born into its numinous quality as a word

—p.56 George Oppen: His Art (52) by Robert Hass
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fatuous

lots of the things that exist in big cities are equally fatuous

—p.313 Sam Lipsyte and Christopher Sorrentino (305) by BOMB Magazine
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virgule

the virgule we use to represent a line break in prose is the same glyph we use to indicate alternatives, the "either / or."

—p.299 Ben Lerner and Adam Fitzgerald (295) by Ben Lerner
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polysemous

experiences his incompetence as ambiguity or polysemy in Spanish

—p.299 Ben Lerner and Adam Fitzgerald (295) by Ben Lerner
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