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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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extirpate
The Faraway Nearby

rather than extirpating the external causes of pain

on Buddhism

—p.153 Unwound (141) by Rebecca Solnit
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sundered

The words on that sutured, sundered book of leaves

—p.149 Unwound (141) by Rebecca Solnit
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penury

Luxuries and fine goods had been scarce in Iceland's penurious past

—p.143 Unwound (141) by Rebecca Solnit
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aegis

everything had gone well under her aegis

basically "shield"

—p.136 Knot (117) by Rebecca Solnit
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distaff

Women were spinsters before the word became pejorative, when distaff meant the female side of the family.

—p.131 Knot (117) by Rebecca Solnit
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