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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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an originally French word that means extra (as in a theatrical production); related words "unfiguranted" and "figurantless" mean "without anonymous extras" (where everyone is a protagonist of sorts)

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to reinforce the sense that the anonymous many (the figurants?) who make up his audience had a place in his text

—p.210 E Pluribus Unum (198) by Jeffrey Severs
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A term from ballet, originally, figurant, the wraith explains.

—p.835 by David Foster Wallace
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She saw again Deepa’s wall of female figurants, her assemblage of images at once diverse and singular

—p.250 by Sam Byers
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