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

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schizogenic

I've hit on an effective way to handle all this schizogenic stuff

—p.61 A Brief Interview with a Five-Draft Man (53) by David Foster Wallace
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kismet

if some combination of cultural kismet and corporate hype garners it an audience

thought it meant kitsch or something, oops

—p.61 A Brief Interview with a Five-Draft Man (53) by David Foster Wallace
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ballast

Infinite Jest nevertheless has enough solid emotional ballast in it to keep it from sinking

—p.5 Something Real American (3) by Laura Miller
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vicissitudes

an ideal, a kind of abstract utopia, a recovered country free of vicissitudes

—p.332 Packing My Father-in-Law's Library (327) by James Wood
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captious

he could be captious, censorious, bullying

—p.329 Packing My Father-in-Law's Library (327) by James Wood
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