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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.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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dialectic

its beauty, its truth proceed from a profound dialectic between the life and death of language, between density of the word and the ennui of syntax

on modern poetry

—p.178 Literature According to Minou Drouet (172) by Roland Barthes
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fulguration

it is this weapon alone which can strip the poetic metaphor of its artifice, reveal it as the fulguration of a truth, won over a continuous nausea of language

—p.178 Literature According to Minou Drouet (172) by Roland Barthes
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antiphrasis

Minou Drouet's texts in this sense appear as the antiphrasis of all poetry insofar as they flee that solitary weapon of writers, literality

—p.178 Literature According to Minou Drouet (172) by Roland Barthes
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on child prodigies

But precisely when childhood is defined as a miracle, we protest that this miracle is nothing other than a premature accession to the adult's powers. [...] the entirely bourgeous notion of the child prodigy (Mozart, Rimbaud, Roberto Benzi); an admirable object insofar as it fulfills the ideal fun…

—p.176 Literature According to Minou Drouet (172) by Roland Barthes
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