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

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bulwark

the institutional bulwarks of democratic life

—p.117 The White Man, Unburdened (114) missing author
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inchoate

the inchoate lurchings of an American right-wing libertarian movement

—p.66 A Crime and a Pastime (66) missing author
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scopophilic

Film had been a consciously scopophilic medium since the days of keyhole spying in early cinema works

—p.37 A Thousand Unblinking Eyes: A History (36) missing author
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penumbra

a single file of passers-by, stooped and penumbral and annihilated by the vertical power of the supertalls

—p.25 The Needles and the Damage Done (20) missing author
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writ large

the new venue’s art will be made to work, to prove a “fit” with the cultural tastes of the supertallified city: an injunction writ large in the choice of that utilitarian name

—p.24 The Needles and the Damage Done (20) missing author
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