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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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just a false synecdoche
Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present

[...] A stereotype [...] is just a false synecdoche, a token of the conceptualizer's ignorance or laziness, not of some certain distorted features' representative power. [...]

—p.38 Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present by David Foster Wallace
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bregma

at the distinctively pop-cultural bregma

—p.34 by David Foster Wallace
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epiclesis

more like temblor, epiclesis, prophecy;

—p.31 by David Foster Wallace
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temblor

more like temblor, epiclesis, prophecy;

—p.31 by David Foster Wallace
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syncopated

those lithely syncopated quintets

—p.29 by David Foster Wallace
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