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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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parochial
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

Suburban and parochial, his vistas stretched far into the East

about E. M. Forster

—p.15 E. M. Forster, Middle Manager (14) by Zadie Smith
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unlettered

In 1937, black readers were embarrassed by the unlettered nature of the dialogue

—p.10 Their Eyes Were Watching God: What Does Soulful Mean? (3) by Zadie Smith
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realpolitik

she rejects the realpolitik of her grandmother

thought it had Soviet connotations for some reason

—p.6 Their Eyes Were Watching God: What Does Soulful Mean? (3) by Zadie Smith
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unlettered

In the mouths of unlettered people she finds the bliss of quotidian metaphor:

I don't think I've seen this word used before but the meaning is pretty clear

—p.5 Their Eyes Were Watching God: What Does Soulful Mean? (3) by Zadie Smith
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ovate
Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal

550-foot-long park, an ovate patch of grass

surprising to see ovate and not oval in this context

—p.30 FOUNDERS (7) by Nick Bilton
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