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

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prelapsarian

Back in those ancient prelapsarian days, "girl-on-girl" hadn't even been invented yet.

—p.97 Nostalgia (97) by George Saunders
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paucity

I am an American, and a paucity of data does not stop me from making sweeping vague conceptual statements

—p.94 A Brief Study of the British (85) by George Saunders
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verities

Vonnegut seemed to have been in a place where all the comforting verities had been stripped away

—p.81 Mr. Vonnegut in Sumatra (73) by George Saunders
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scion

her grandather, a scion of old Dubai

—p.44 The New Mecca (21) by George Saunders
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rarefied

What they share most is a desire not to be cast down, down from the realm of the rarefied air, back to where they came from.

on the people controlling the media

—p.17 The Braindead Megaphone (1) by George Saunders
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