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

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penumbra

The penumbra of the Holocaust hangs over him

—p.45 The Google Theory of History (32) by Franklin Foer
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liminal

Clouzot's Odette occupies a liminal space, trapped between the pure and perverse

—p.109 Infinite Jest and Modern French Film (101) by Z. Bart Thornton
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interstice

These interstices where Wallace scholarship can find something like the new voices we are being told it so desperately needs?

—p.94 David Foster Wallace and Music: The Grunge Writer and the Hitherto Criminally Overlooked Importance of Signifying Rappers (89) by Tony McMahon
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diegetic

the most conspicuous feature of Wallace's late fiction is its radical drawing out of the time of consciousness relative to the time of diegetic action

—p.61 The Zen of "Good Old Neon": David Wallace, Alan Watts, and the Double-Bind of Selfhood (57) by Christopher Kocela
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