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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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pallid
Both Flesh and Not: Essays

next to which the epiphanies of Joyce or redemptions of O'Connor seem pallid or crude

referring to Borges' best works, The Immortal and The Writing of the God

—p.294 Borges on the Couch (285) by David Foster Wallace
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pontine

hence the pontine claim above

referring to the claim that Borges is the bridge between modernism and postmodernism

—p.294 Borges on the Couch (285) by David Foster Wallace
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eo ipso

was the Flaubert who wrote Madame Bovary eo ipso suicidal?

—p.292 Borges on the Couch (285) by David Foster Wallace
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augury

an inquisition into dreams, reality, guilt, augury, and mortal terror

on Borges' distintive interrogative ending

—p.290 Borges on the Couch (285) by David Foster Wallace
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limpid

the limpid, witty, pansophical, profoundly adult writer we know from his stories

on Borges

—p.286 Borges on the Couch (285) by David Foster Wallace
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