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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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tendentious
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

criticism's tendentious politics

—p.46 Rereading Barthes and Nabokov (42) by Zadie Smith
strange
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bricolage

To Nabokov, an author was more than a bricolage artiste, more than a recombiner of older materials.

—p.46 Rereading Barthes and Nabokov (42) by Zadie Smith
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Derridean
How to Be Alone

The chief pleasure of the Encyclopedia lies in a kind of Derridean lateral slide of assocation.

—p.188 First City (179) by Jonathan Franzen
notable
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antic
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

antic, decentered, many-voiced, perverse

describing Barthes' theory of the text. never seen it used as an adjective before

—p.46 Rereading Barthes and Nabokov (42) by Zadie Smith
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jouissance

both equally concerned with jouissance, with literary bliss

on Barthes and Nabokov

—p.44 Rereading Barthes and Nabokov (42) by Zadie Smith
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