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

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pallid

the pallid lighting of underground transfer halls

—p.102 Back in the Day (98) by Jesse McCarthy
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dross

Even within poems packed with dross, he’ll find his way to something, to a moment you won’t forget.

—p.67 Black Dada Nihilismus (64) by Jesse McCarthy
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laconic

George Herriman was a New Orleans Creole, and the comedy has a laconic Southern charm to its arrangement

—p.66 Black Dada Nihilismus (64) by Jesse McCarthy
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chirography

Walker figured out how to make the cutout congeal into chirography, a signature effect that seizes us, and to which we cannot be indifferent.

—p.45 Venus and the Angel of History (34) by Jesse McCarthy
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quiddity

Yet the quiddity of Morrison’s writing ultimately is just that.

—p.30 The Origin of Others (22) by Jesse McCarthy
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