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

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public libraries and property taxes

[...] Most public libraries are funded by property taxes, which create well-funded libraries in wealthy areas and underfunded ones in communities where a library would benefit people most. Educational institutions would not have to grovel to corporate interests if they were divorced from property-t…

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catholicity

Comfort's catholicity of perception and image, strangely Whitmanesque in range

quoting some art criticism in Poetry Quarterly

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let the meaning choose the word

[...] What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the worst thing one can do with words is surrender to them. When you think of a concrete object, you think wordlessly, and then,
if you want to describe the thing you have been visualising…

by George Orwell