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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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ascesis
The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace: Boredom and Addiction in an Age of Distraction

Boredom is a head-clearing ascesis.

—p.77 Boredom (77) by Adam S. Miller
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catechumen

Chris Fogle, erstwhile nihilist but eventual catechumen of the IRS

used metaphorically here

—p.65 Silence (65) by Adam S. Miller
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eschatology

The general mood is eschatological. We parade the world's end before our closed eyes.

on the average person's tendency to worry

—p.7 Heads (5) by Adam S. Miller
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hagiography

a compensatory impulse to hagiography followed his suicide

on DFW

—p.1 Books (1) by Adam S. Miller
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bivouac
The Last Days of New Paris

They bivouac in a preserved café.

—p.98 The Last Days of New Paris (1) by China Miéville
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