Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.
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florid
Both Flesh and Not: Essays

whose florid life story

—p.217 Rhetoric and the Math Melodrama (209) by David Foster Wallace
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belles-lettres

books like these are belles lettres, literature, for which the audience is, again, usually small and rather specialized

—p.216 Rhetoric and the Math Melodrama (209) by David Foster Wallace
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encomium

these novels' lofty, encomiastic view of pure math

—p.213 Rhetoric and the Math Melodrama (209) by David Foster Wallace
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parturition

something grotesque has happened to it in the parturition from head to page

on the hideous infant as a metaphor for writing a book

—p.194 The Nature of the Fun (193) by David Foster Wallace
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ingress

There is, for example, no quicker or easier ingress to the audience's heart than to present an innocent child in danger

—p.186 The (As It Were) Seminal Importance of Terminator 2 (177) by David Foster Wallace
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