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

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writ large

a terrible trial for poor Angus, who felt he’d done nothing to deserve it. He stalked off the yacht at the earliest possible opportunity, injured innocence writ large on his brow.

—p.101 Two Stories (95) by Helen DeWitt
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echt

a bevy (it really is the only word for it, echt B-movie stuff) of beautiful girls surrounded me

—p.97 Two Stories (95) by Helen DeWitt
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sedulous

Press coverage of the industry was boosterish and sedulously uninvestigative, as journalists tended to embrace Google’s old “Don’t be evil” motto as a factual description of its aims

—p.14 Code Red (14) by Alex Press
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chiliastic

the most exciting part of Marxism, the quality setting it apart from religious chiliasm or existential rebellion.

on the abolition of capital

—p.162 On Endnotes (149) missing author
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insuperable

the new picture of an insuperably fractured proletariat ignores the ways in which the working class is still unified and meaningful

—p.162 On Endnotes (149) missing author
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