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

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Canute

His problems? No one cared. They were the great green tide, and he was just another fat Canute, foolish and alone.

—p.95 The Red Monk (85) missing author
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weft

Seek the weft of real things. Find the idiosyncratic weft.

—p.41 Seven New Poets (30) missing author
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peremptory

that Halsa intended nothing peremptory

—p.161 American Subsidiary (157) missing author
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contrapuntal

The same holds for that other contrapuntal peak in twentieth-century generational warfare: May 1968, when bourgeois parents and bourgeois children found themselves ‘on opposite sides of the barricade’

—p.57 The Millennial Mind (55) missing author
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divagation

There was no lack of sincerity in these divagations.

—p.267 by Simone de Beauvoir
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