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

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autochthonous

Behemoth is autochthonous, representing the stable order of earth-bound peoples.

—p.110 Behemoth and Leviathan: The Fascist Bestiary of the Alt-Right (109) missing author
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idiolect

Twenty-first-century Marxists must be nimble if we are to revive our own idiolect

—p.108 Salvaging the Dormant: On Language (95) missing author
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metonymy

with the crisis of their project in a destablising world, liberals’ obsession with norms of appearance, trappings and proprieties of a collapsing system, may grow, in glum aspirational metonymy

—p.88 ‘One thinge that ouerthroweth all that were graunted before’: On Being Presidential (81) by China Miéville
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lachrymose

The culture industry’s hagiography (Barry, Southside with You) is accompanied by a torrent of schmaltzy and lachrymose words

—p.84 ‘One thinge that ouerthroweth all that were graunted before’: On Being Presidential (81) by China Miéville
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