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

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cuneate

whey sky of a dull spring day, heat lightning taking pictures of a distant line of trees in the night, the palette of maple leaves on brown sand, a small bird’s cuneate footprints on new snow.

this guy knows too many fckin words wtf

—p.40 by Vladimir Nabokov
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palpebral

Perhaps nearer to the hypnagogic mirages I am thinking of is the colored spot, the stab of an afterimage, with which the lamp one has just turned off wounds the palpebral night

—p.34 by Vladimir Nabokov
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hypnagogic

Perhaps nearer to the hypnagogic mirages I am thinking of is the colored spot, the stab of an afterimage, with which the lamp one has just turned off wounds the palpebral night

—p.34 by Vladimir Nabokov
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fatidic

The fatidic accents that restrained Socrates or egged on Joaneta Darc have degenerated with me to the level of something one happens to hear between lifting and clapping down the receiver of a busy party-line telephone.

—p.33 by Vladimir Nabokov
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penumbra

upon awakening in the early morning I made a tent of my bedclothes and let my imagination play in a thousand dim ways with shadowy snowslides of linen and with the faint light that seemed to penetrate my penumbral covert from some immense distance

—p.23 by Vladimir Nabokov
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