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

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echt

I knew someone who was an echt mama’s boy in real life who took insane risks smuggling wristwatches into Zimbabwe on weekends.

—p.5 GUILTY REPOSE (3) by Norman Rush
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weft

This is an elaborated, painterly prose. It raids the world for materials to build sentences. It fabricates a semi-opaque weft of language.

—p.104 by Annie Dillard
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empyrean

It moves along independently and harmlessly, fascinated with and despairing of its own techniques, advancing by leaps and bounds into the empyrean.

—p.101 by Annie Dillard
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quondam

to strike quondam attractive moral postures

huh

—p.44 by Annie Dillard
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limn

You must let characters limn themselves according to their own logic; action must develop of itself.

—p.45 Intimate Notebook 1840-1841 (13) by Gustave Flaubert
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