Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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cormorant

Coleridge, supremely of this breed, spoke of "literary-cormorants,"

—p.152 Rare Bird (148) by George Steiner
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Manichaeism

Pirsig's work is, like so much of classic American literature, Manichaean.

formed of dualities

—p.144 Uneasy Rider (142) by George Steiner
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plosives

between the crotchets and plosives of the motorcycle engine

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—p.143 Uneasy Rider (142) by George Steiner
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irredentist

So once again the old crazy drums of irredentist territorial claims and ethnic autonomy are pounding in the jungle of the cities.

—p.130 B.B. (128) by George Steiner
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ineluctable

Ineluctably, collective-socialist ideals seem to lead to one or another form of the Gulag.

—p.130 B.B. (128) by George Steiner
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