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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).

the part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind

2

catastrophic climate change. A millennial eschatology has returned, taking the place of false positivism and pseudo-rational prognoses

—p.2 Now Less Than Never (1) missing author
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4 years, 4 months ago

catastrophic climate change. A millennial eschatology has returned, taking the place of false positivism and pseudo-rational prognoses

—p.2 Now Less Than Never (1) missing author
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4 years, 4 months ago

the partially shaded outer region of the shadow cast by an opaque object

3

Four thousand new analyses appear at once, trailing a penumbra of several million tweets

—p.3 Party Foul (3) by n+1
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4 years, 4 months ago

Four thousand new analyses appear at once, trailing a penumbra of several million tweets

—p.3 Party Foul (3) by n+1
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4 years, 4 months ago

(noun) a complete or impressive collection of things; (historically) a complete set of arms or suit of armor

3

They’re the closest thing we have to a party. Yes, they represent a panoply of powerful business interests who write the bills.

—p.3 Party Foul (3) by n+1
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4 years, 4 months ago

They’re the closest thing we have to a party. Yes, they represent a panoply of powerful business interests who write the bills.

—p.3 Party Foul (3) by n+1
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4 years, 4 months ago

(noun) a literary term coined by Alexander Pope to describe to describe amusingly failed attempts at sublimity (an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous); adj is "bathetic"

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Yes, a majority of Democratic senators voted to invade Iraq, later indulging in bathetic recantations as they transferred their animus to Russia

ugh i love it

—p.3 Party Foul (3) by n+1
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4 years, 4 months ago

Yes, a majority of Democratic senators voted to invade Iraq, later indulging in bathetic recantations as they transferred their animus to Russia

ugh i love it

—p.3 Party Foul (3) by n+1
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4 years, 4 months ago

(noun) a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form; e.g. ‘Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.’.

4

Yes, they seem to have a teeth-grinding fondness for the rhetorical figure of chiasmus (“We can build on the strength of our diversity, and the diversity of our strengths”).

—p.4 Party Foul (3) by n+1
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4 years, 4 months ago

Yes, they seem to have a teeth-grinding fondness for the rhetorical figure of chiasmus (“We can build on the strength of our diversity, and the diversity of our strengths”).

—p.4 Party Foul (3) by n+1
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4 years, 4 months ago

(adjective) complacently or inanely foolish; silly

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TRUMP’S CLAIMS to independence based on his private stash of billions were, of course, fatuous

—p.7 Party Foul (3) by n+1
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4 years, 4 months ago

TRUMP’S CLAIMS to independence based on his private stash of billions were, of course, fatuous

—p.7 Party Foul (3) by n+1
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4 years, 4 months ago

a person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle; the general form is "apostasy"

87

a friend of mine from Bible school, a fellow apostate, sent me an email with the title “robot evangelism.”

—p.87 Ghost in the Cloud (75) by Meghan O'Gieblyn
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4 years, 4 months ago

a friend of mine from Bible school, a fellow apostate, sent me an email with the title “robot evangelism.”

—p.87 Ghost in the Cloud (75) by Meghan O'Gieblyn
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4 years, 4 months ago

the theory and methodology of interpretation, especially the interpretation of biblical texts, wisdom literature, and philosophical texts

90

I suppose I’d been hoping that Benek would hand me some final hermeneutic, or even offer a portal back to the faith, one paved by the certitude of modern science.

—p.90 Ghost in the Cloud (75) by Meghan O'Gieblyn
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4 years, 4 months ago

I suppose I’d been hoping that Benek would hand me some final hermeneutic, or even offer a portal back to the faith, one paved by the certitude of modern science.

—p.90 Ghost in the Cloud (75) by Meghan O'Gieblyn
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4 years, 4 months ago

(adjective) playing lightly on or over a surface; flickering / (adjective) softly bright or radiant / (adjective) marked by lightness or brilliance especially of expression

91

There were old bodies and young bodies, men and women, their limbs tanned and lambent with perspiration.

—p.91 Ghost in the Cloud (75) by Meghan O'Gieblyn
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4 years, 4 months ago

There were old bodies and young bodies, men and women, their limbs tanned and lambent with perspiration.

—p.91 Ghost in the Cloud (75) by Meghan O'Gieblyn
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4 years, 4 months ago

(verb) to win over by wiles; entice / (verb) to acquire by ingenuity or flattery; wangle

110

Intercepting the girl, the wolf engages, charms, inveigles

—p.110 League of Men (107) missing author
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4 years, 4 months ago

Intercepting the girl, the wolf engages, charms, inveigles

—p.110 League of Men (107) missing author
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4 years, 4 months ago