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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.

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sequor ad absurdum
The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace: Language, Identity, and Resistance

unwilling to allow the sequor ad absurdum approach espoused b Lenore Sr.

on LaVache in Broom

—p.79 The Book, the Broom, and the Ladder: Grounding Philosophy (65) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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antinomy

An antinomy is a problem of language similar to a paradox

on their use in Broom

—p.77 The Book, the Broom, and the Ladder: Grounding Philosophy (65) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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sylvanshine

Claude Sylvanshine in The Pale King, whose surname refers to a dappling of sunlight through leaves in autumn

"dappling of sunlight" is quite pretty, incidentally

—p.75 The Book, the Broom, and the Ladder: Grounding Philosophy (65) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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limn

to limn and to limit

—p.62 "It's Just the Texture of the World I Live in": Wallace and the World (41) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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anodyne

mirrors processes of adolescent self-definition, functioning as an anodyne of sorts to infantile narcisissm, refusing to look beyond the borders of its own importance

on DFW's relationship (i.e., where he places himself in the panthen) with other American postmodernist fiction writers

—p.48 "It's Just the Texture of the World I Live in": Wallace and the World (41) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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