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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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7 years ago

labor utopia

[...] Their theory was that the technology-driven gains in productivity and the resulting loss of manufacturing jobs would inevitably result in better wealth distribution, including generous payments to most of the population for doing nothing, when Capital realised that it could not afford to paup…

—p.45 Purity Purity in Oakland (1) by Jonathan Franzen
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regulatory weather

[...] depending on the regulatory weather (not climate but weather, for it changed seasonally and sometimes seemingly hourly) [...]

—p.28 Purity in Oakland (1) by Jonathan Franzen
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too much about men

"[...] I think only maybe your life revolves too much about men, a little bit, right now."

Pip stared in amazement at this fresh insult.

—p.25 Purity in Oakland (1) by Jonathan Franzen
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a tasty fish with so many small bones

Self-pity seeped into her, a conviction that for no one but her was sex so logistically ungainly, a tasty fish with so many small bones.

—p.15 Purity in Oakland (1) by Jonathan Franzen
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reading the New York Times

From somewhere, in college, Pip had gotten the idea--her mind was like a balloon with static cling, attracting random ideas as they floated by--that the height of civilization was to spend Sunday morning reading an actual paper copy of the Sunday New York Times at a café.

—p.10 Purity in Oakland (1) by Jonathan Franzen