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

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ineffable

There will need to be some kind of unfolding in order to contain it, and there will need to be layers. We are dealing with the ineffable here—we’re out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.

—p.104 by Anne Lamott
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supercilious

Connell is actually drawns towards this supercilious type of person

—p.69 by Sally Rooney
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samizdat

The point of writing in the face of the problem was the point of samizdat, readers and writers meeting secretly all across the Soviet Union to share forbidden books

—p.273 On Becoming an American Writer (251) by Alexander Chee
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palinode

Edinburgh is a palinode. The gods, offended by a speech, require the speaker to make another, its opposite.

—p.233 The Guardians (221) by Alexander Chee
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Klieg light

The many landmarks were outlined at night by their lit windows, as if in klieg lights

—p.221 The Guardians (221) by Alexander Chee
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