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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.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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distaff
Purity

uncomfortably weighted against the distaff

I assume in this case it means: weighted against the woman (i.e., Anabel)

—p.400 le1o9n8a0rd (315) by Jonathan Franzen
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flocculence

The New Jersey sky was a low-hanging steambath of churning flocculence

—p.323 le1o9n8a0rd (315) by Jonathan Franzen
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orgone

returning with younger women who helped him channel his orgone energy into the farm's rocky soil

referring to a man who followed Wilhelm Reich's theories

—p.250 Moonglow Dairy (239) by Jonathan Franzen
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sybaritic

Their unscheduled freedom on the weekend seemed sybaritic in comparison.

—p.222 Too Much Information (169) by Jonathan Franzen
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egress

doing the egress paperwork on the mock B61

opposite of ingress

—p.211 Too Much Information (169) by Jonathan Franzen
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