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

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sacerdotal

Here he made a slightly sacerdotal gesture with cupped hands and I thought the excursion was over.

—p.87 THE SOLAR DEMOCRAT (57) by Norman Rush
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proleptic

The saté would get between your teeth. He had toothpicks with him and handed me some proleptically.

lmao that's good

—p.60 THE SOLAR DEMOCRAT (57) by Norman Rush
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prandial

We’d had some minor postprandial necking in the car, in the course of which I’d wondered if he was uncomfortable kissing in a sitting position.

—p.41 GUILTY REPOSE (3) by Norman Rush
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paterfamilias

He was a leading-man type who was just over the line into paterfamilias roles and hating it.

—p.38 GUILTY REPOSE (3) by Norman Rush
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caesura

When I find myself in a homogeneous phase of my life, I like to have a caption for it. Guilty Repose is what I came up with for my caesura in Gaborone, which softens it: I went slightly decadent.

—p.6 GUILTY REPOSE (3) by Norman Rush
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