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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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cataphoric reference

even when the anaphoric or cataphoric elements explained are at most semi-ambivalent

—p.162 "That is Not Wholly True" Notes on Annotation in David Foster Wallace's Shorter Fiction (and Non-Fiction) (156) missing author
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anaphoric reference

even when the anaphoric or cataphoric elements explained are at most semi-ambivalent

on the "(i.e., the therapist)" used in Depressed Person

—p.162 "That is Not Wholly True" Notes on Annotation in David Foster Wallace's Shorter Fiction (and Non-Fiction) (156) missing author
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idiolect

the real "problem" of the text is the way in which the narrator adopts and/or simulates the protagonist's subjective stance and idiolect.

on The Depressed Person

—p.162 "That is Not Wholly True" Notes on Annotation in David Foster Wallace's Shorter Fiction (and Non-Fiction) (156) missing author
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prosody

Wallace is a master at balancing where to place notes, always minding the prosody of his prose.

—p.160 "That is Not Wholly True" Notes on Annotation in David Foster Wallace's Shorter Fiction (and Non-Fiction) (156) missing author
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dialogic

the possibility of sincerity depends upon its becoming dialogic in chracter, always requiring a response from the other to bring it into play

—p.141 David Foster Wallace and the New Sincerity in American Fiction (131) by Adam Kelly
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