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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.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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belles-lettres

That is surely why it has no regard for belles-lettres.

—p.114 Golem XIV: Foreword (99) by Stanisław Lem
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peremptory

participating in conversations with GOLEM requires people to have patience and above all self-control, for from our point of view it can be arrogant and peremptory.

—p.113 Golem XIV: Foreword (99) by Stanisław Lem
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theodicy

all of which, translated into conventional theodicean language, signifies the coexistence in the same Universum of God, his total absence, and his complete opposite in Satan.

—p.73 Juan Rambellais et. al., A History of Bitic Literature, Volume I:Introduction to the Second Edition (70) by Stanisław Lem
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whether people really think

So the Cogito paradox made itself known to us in bitistics in an ironic and at the same time startling manner: as despair on the part of machines as to whether people really think! The situation suddenly acquired a perfect bilateral symmetry. We humans are unable to achieve complete certainty (as…

—p.65 Juan Rambellais et. al., A History of Bitic Literature, Volume I: Introduction (41) by Stanisław Lem
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ardent, unfailingly attentive, and uncompromising readers

One thing, however, can be said with absolute certainty. Before the use of machine intelligence no thinker or author ever had such ardent, unfailingly attentive, and uncompromising readers! That is why, in the cry that burst from the lips of a certain first-rate thinker when he was offered, by MENT…

—p.63 Juan Rambellais et. al., A History of Bitic Literature, Volume I: Introduction (41) by Stanisław Lem