Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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parvenu

the parvenus who had come to power in Germany

—p.236 by W.G. Sebald
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stertorous breathing

At dawn the stertorous breathing stopped

—p.90 by W.G. Sebald
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homily

confined as I had been until now to the Bible in Welsh and homilectic literature

—p.85 by W.G. Sebald
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which no ray of light could penetrate inspo/setting

[...] it was truly terrifying to see such emptiness open up a foot away from firm ground, to realize that there was no transition, only this dividing line, with ordinary life on one side and its unimaginable opposite on the other. The chasm into which no ray of light could penetrate [...]

—p.414 by W.G. Sebald
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something like a sense of eternity inspo/setting

[...] But on bright summer days, in particular, so evenly disposed a lustre lay over the whole of Barmouth Bay that the separate surfaces of sand and water, sea and land, earth and sky could no longer be distinguished. All forms and colours were dissolved in a pearl-grey haze; there were no contras…

—p.135 by W.G. Sebald