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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 great man was a cripple in his own mind

1.1 Ben San Pablo was named after this father, Bienvenido San Pablo, Sr., a strong muscular man of broad shoulders and deep voice, a tough, bold exterior fortified nightly by the golden flame lit within an amber bottle of whiskey. There was no earthly weight that Bienvenido Senior could not lift, n…

—p.337 I Hotel 1972: Inter-national Hotel (295) by Karen Tei Yamashita
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but when it will fail and how, that's

9.10 Karl said, _Marx said that men make their own history but not necessarily as they please. He predicted the inevitability of the failure of the capitalist mode of production, and you yourselves can see the contradictions that make continuous acquisition of the earth's resources and the exploita…

—p.323 1972: Inter-national Hotel (295) by Karen Tei Yamashita
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when did we become Asian American?

7.3 Ben asked, When did we become Asian American?

7.4 Olivia answered, What sort of question is that?

7.5 Karl interrupted. _Wait, it's not a stupid question. Nineteen sixty-six. There's a magazine article about the Japanese American model minority, a kind of American. Before that, Japane…

—p.321 1972: Inter-national Hotel (295) by Karen Tei Yamashita
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Marxism is a way of thinking

1.4 They met in Kang's apartment on Dwight, blocks from the university, arriving with their copies of Capital, The State and Revolution, WHat Is to be Done?

1.5 Kang opened the discussion. _We're going to take this slowly and build our knowledge. What I realize is that this is a body of knowle…

—p.314 1972: Inter-national Hotel (295) by Karen Tei Yamashita
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she could not have been more than twenty

2.1 Ben sat in the audience and marveled at the confidence of the young woman who marched to the microphone and spoke without notes, in complete sentences, with casual but forceful articulateness. She recounted her journey, her work, and the significance of her meetings and discussions with those p…

—p.304 1972: Inter-national Hotel (295) by Karen Tei Yamashita