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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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aureate
Both Flesh and Not: Essays

which is not exactly belletristic but certainly isn't written in aureate academese

on Peter Singer's "What Should a Billionaire Give?"

—p.310 Deciderization 2007--A Special Report (299) by David Foster Wallace
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vitiate

the sort of magical compression that enriches instead of vitiates

—p.310 Deciderization 2007--A Special Report (299) by David Foster Wallace
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legerdemain

tired of the legerdemain of collapsing the word's neutral meaning--"preference, inclination"--into the pejorative one of "unfairness stemming from prejudice"

on the word "bias"

—p.308 Deciderization 2007--A Special Report (299) by David Foster Wallace
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abreaction

I don't care much for abreactive or confessional memoirs

—p.308 Deciderization 2007--A Special Report (299) by David Foster Wallace
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anentropic

my Decidering function is anentropic and therefore mostly exclusionary

—p.308 Deciderization 2007--A Special Report (299) by David Foster Wallace
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