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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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(adjective) marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose / (adjective) not connected with the main subject / (adjective) disappointing in progress, performance, or quality

22

Reading in my admittedly desultory way across the centuries

—p.22 by Ben Lerner
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Reading in my admittedly desultory way across the centuries

—p.22 by Ben Lerner
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(noun) the study of versification / (noun) the systematic study of metrical structure / (noun) a particular system, theory, or style of versification / (noun) the rhythmic and intonational aspect of language

27

he seems incapable of counting prosodic stresses

—p.27 by Ben Lerner
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he seems incapable of counting prosodic stresses

—p.27 by Ben Lerner
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a rhetorical term originally taught to Greek students as a way of bringing the experience of an object to a listener or reader through highly detailed descriptive writing

33

those are gorgeous lines of ekphrastic verse

—p.33 by Ben Lerner
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those are gorgeous lines of ekphrastic verse

—p.33 by Ben Lerner
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(noun) slash

71

The “ / ”—the technical term is “virgule”—is the conventional way of indicating a line break when verse is quoted in prose.

—p.71 by Ben Lerner
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The “ / ”—the technical term is “virgule”—is the conventional way of indicating a line break when verse is quoted in prose.

—p.71 by Ben Lerner
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(noun) a long, mournful complaint or lamentation; a list of woes

76

Hating on actual poems, then, is often an ironic if sometimes unwitting way of expressing the persistence of the utopian ideal of Poetry, and the jeremiads in that regard are defenses, too.

—p.76 by Ben Lerner
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Hating on actual poems, then, is often an ironic if sometimes unwitting way of expressing the persistence of the utopian ideal of Poetry, and the jeremiads in that regard are defenses, too.

—p.76 by Ben Lerner
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