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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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sententia
At the New Yorker

sententia (the Latin name for a one-sentence dictum or proposition)

—p.240 Short Shrift (239) by George Steiner
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entropology

defined by Claude Lévi-Strauss in contrast to anthropology

—p.238 The Lost Garden (230) by George Steiner
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semiotics

"semiotics" (which is the systematic investigation of signs and symbols)

—p.233 The Lost Garden (230) by George Steiner
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sforzando

a baroque sforzando quavering to rest in the image

—p.230 The Lost Garden (230) by George Steiner
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schlemiel

She was also a transcendent schlemiel.

—p.229 Bad Friday (219) by George Steiner
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