Welcome to Bookmarker!

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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litote



A litote, as we find it persistently in the greatest of all French writers--in Racine--is the tightly, densely concentrated expression of some central immensity, or even enormity, in human recognitions and emotions.

—p.240 Short Shrift (239) by George Steiner
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This universe of litotes

on sangfroid underreactions in gangster films

—p.76 Power and "Cool" (76) by Roland Barthes
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