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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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ad hominem

If for any reason you happen to find yourself sharing this particular student’s perceptions and reaction, I would ask that you bracket your feelings just long enough to recognize that the PWM instructor’s very modern rhetorical dilemma in that office was not much different from the dilemma faced by…

—p.117 Consider the Lobster and Other Essays Authority and American Usage (66) by David Foster Wallace
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single spasmodic shudder

An actor named Jim Buck wins AVN’s Gay Performer of the Year Award, and you better believe yr. corresps. sit bolt upright when the person who appears onstage to accept the award is a pink and leptosomatic 4'10" and is wearing an Eton collar and appears, even under 125X binoculation, to be a twelve-…

—p.47 Big Red Son (3) by David Foster Wallace
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a 40ish woman in two-piece Armani

[...] Back at the journalists’ table with us is a 40ish woman in two-piece Armani who’s doing a spot on the Awards for ABC Radio; she spends most of the evening hunched over with her head in her hand and her tape recorder not even on. [...]

—p.45 Big Red Son (3) by David Foster Wallace
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it was very uncomfortable archive/silicon-jest

... End of vignette, and now Scotty — like Max, like Jasmin, like Jenna and Randy and Tom and Caressa — looks around the table, examining his auditors’ faces for the admiration that cannot possibly fail to appear. What is the socially appropriate response to an anecdote like this — a contextless an…

—p.33 Big Red Son (3) by David Foster Wallace
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complex erotic tension

[...] But there is also a complex erotic tension. Because porn films’ worlds are so sexualized, with everybody seemingly teetering right on the edge of coitus all the time and it taking only the slightest nudge or excuse — a stalled elevator, an unlocked door, a cocked eyebrow, a firm handshake — t…

—p.24 Big Red Son (3) by David Foster Wallace