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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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flummery

I detected an echo of good British common sense in the face of a bit too much Gallic flummery

—p.viii Translator's Note by Richard Howard (vii) by Richard Howard
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semioclasm

no denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis, no semiology which cannot ultimately be acknowledged as a semioclasm

quoting Barthes from somewhere in Myth Today

—p.vii Translator's Note by Richard Howard (vii) by Roland Barthes
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both "good" and "bad"

[...] This is what Lynch is about in this movie: both innocence and damnation; both sinned-against and sinning. Laura Palmer in Fire Walk with Me is both "good" and "bad," and yet also neither: she's complex, contradictory, real. And we hate this possibility in movies; we hate this "_both…

—p.211 A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments David Lynch Keeps His Head (146) by David Foster Wallace
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