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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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7 years ago

pay taxes, die archive/silicon-jest

[...] We just want to ride, dude. Gratis. To the Reunion. We just want to do the bare unavoidable minimum. Pay taxes, die. Sternberg has resentment even he can't see, it's so deep inside. So an ugly mood, and a desperate need to evacuate his body. It's loathsomely real, I'm afraid. But what's to be…

—p.269 Girl with Curious Hair Westward the course of empire takes its way (231) by David Foster Wallace
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But and so

But and so things are slow, and like you they have this irritating suspicion that any real satisfaction is still way, way off, and it's frustrating; but like basically decent kids they suck it up, bite the foil, because what's going on is just plain real; and no matter what we want, the real world …

—p.263 Westward the course of empire takes its way (231) by David Foster Wallace
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Corporeal Punishment inspo/characterisation topic/having-a-body

[...] Ironically, a good part of his anticorporeal stance (it was his idea to call having a body Corporeal Punishment) derives from his _non_fatal flaw, the skin trouble, the skin trouble itself deriving from a weekend years past, just before a cattle call for a Wisk spot he didn't get, a weekend o…

—p.262 Westward the course of empire takes its way (231) by David Foster Wallace
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deeply ambivalent about being embodied inspo/characterisation topic/having-a-body

Eyes the broad-shouldered faceless character that symbolizes Men's Room, does Sternberg, and struggles with himself. He's needed a bowel movement for hours, and since the LordAloft 7:10 lifted things have gotten critical. He tried, back at O'Hare. But he was unable to, because he was afraid to, afr…

—p.254 Westward the course of empire takes its way (231) by David Foster Wallace
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Sternberg's eye

What's contemporarily tragic about Sternberg is that he has a fatal physical flaw. One of his eyes is turned completely around in his head. From the front it looks like a boiled egg. It won't come back around straight. It's like an injury. It's incredibly bad for his ambitions as a commercial a…

—p.250 Westward the course of empire takes its way (231) by David Foster Wallace