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

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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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labile

the students are there voluntarily, and are by definition young and labile and pre-specialized

—p.91 To Try Extra Hard To Exercise Patience, Politeness, and Imagination (67) by Dave Eggers
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dreck

But the ∞-drove-Cantor-mad stuff was dreck

—p.85 To Try Extra Hard To Exercise Patience, Politeness, and Imagination (67) by Dave Eggers
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