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

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tule fog

As I finished reading, I realized that I had allowed myself to inhale the air of inevitability settling around our office like a tule fog.

—p.139 by Douglas Edwards
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abattoir

I felt sorry for new Googlers who stepped into the reality abattoir for the first time and looked around the room with naked-at-school-nightmare eyes

—p.105 by Douglas Edwards
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vitiate

As time went on and the shadow of fool-made history vitiated even the exactitude of sundials, we moved more restlessly over Europe

—p.306 by Vladimir Nabokov
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friable

there is in every child the essentially human urge to reshape the earth, to act upon a friable environment (unless he is a born Marxist or a corpse and meekly waits for the environment to fashion him)

lol @ the tendentiousness but understandable i guess

—p.302 by Vladimir Nabokov
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dappled

fabulous forests where there were more birds than tigers and more fruit than thorns, and where, in some dappled depth, man’s mind had been born

—p.297 by Vladimir Nabokov
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