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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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enervating
David Foster Wallace's Balancing Books: Fictions of Value

The effect of such forces is, for his characters, enervating

I always think it means the opposite

—p.4 Introduction: A Living Transaction (1) by Jeffrey Severs
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polysemous

For Wallace, value, kept loose and polysemous, could connect depression's internal discourse

—p.2 Introduction: A Living Transaction (1) by Jeffrey Severs
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atman
Buddhism Plain and Simple

The atman was thought to be eternal.

—p.119 by Steve Hagen
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bunyanize

We tend to bunyanize the people we admire.

—p.82 by Steve Hagen
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Huxtable
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

It's just that some people, they can't get with that Huxtable culture.

—p.233 Little (227) by Matthew Desmond
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