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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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chiasmus
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

the two sides of that chiasmus would be in constant tension

I vaguely remember trying to memorise this term for IB English but I guess I forgot ... referring to DFW's attempt to pursue "morally passionate, passionately moral fiction"

—p.257 Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: The Difficult Gifts of David Foster Wallace (255) by Zadie Smith
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triune

that unusual triune skill set

—p.257 Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: The Difficult Gifts of David Foster Wallace (255) by Zadie Smith
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bathos

his gift is for the crafting of exquisite narratives, shows shaped like Alice Munro stories, bathetic and beautiful

—p.250 Dead Man Laughing (237) by Zadie Smith
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fey

the Guardianistas fey fools, skipping across the stage

—p.247 Dead Man Laughing (237) by Zadie Smith
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compere

And now the compere was calling my brother's name.

—p.244 Dead Man Laughing (237) by Zadie Smith
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