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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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a dais for the imagination

What's Il Piccolo? Is it a coffee house? A doughnut shop? A Chinese cake and tea shop that plays Italian opera? Honey it's a stage, a dais for the imagination. It's reproduced in every city on every continent. Gather the intellectuals, the politicos, and the surrounding lowlifes to exchange the nec…

—p.233 I Hotel 1971: Aiiieeeee! Hotel (223) by Karen Tei Yamashita
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one night he comes home, finds the door ajar

How many nights she’s got to sit home with the baby waiting for the field marshal to return with his ratty briefcase? One night he comes home, finds the door ajar. First time he has to really draw his weapon, kick the door aside, and jump around with his heart in his throat, thinking, what’s the do…

—p.218 1970: "I" Hotel (193) by Karen Tei Yamashita
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she’s working the telephones at the office

She’s working the telephones at the office, waking up early to cook for the breakfast program, distributing the paper, running day care during the morning and a free school in the afternoons, lifting shit and raising money for the programs, doing political study in the evenings and basic training o…

—p.217 1970: "I" Hotel (193) by Karen Tei Yamashita
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to prove he’s into Malcolm

Now this is where he’s going to show off his Marxist take, but he wants to bring it down to the level of common understanding. Make it plain to the people. “Now I’m not too intellectual or academic, but I heard that this thing is like where the quantitative change turns into the qualitative change,…

—p.213 1970: "I" Hotel (193) by Karen Tei Yamashita
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if necessary, he’s the Asian American Community

Like I say, Akagi stays behind to take care of business. After three years Huey gets free, but there’re dead brothers all across the country. Police raids and shootouts in Oakland, Chicago, L.A., and the Marin County Courthouse. Repression, provocation, conspiracy, purges. Head of the Panthers inca…

—p.210 1970: "I" Hotel (193) by Karen Tei Yamashita