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

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refulgent

In this final scene, the many refulgent lamps and regimented mirrors in the theatre foyer banish shadows completely

this words always sounds uglier than it is

—p.170 by Claire-Louise Bennett
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etiolated

My capacity for convention, limited in any case, is fairly etiolated at such times.

—p.148 by Claire-Louise Bennett
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polysemous

combining with a polysemic cinema to produce films which are simultaneously transparent and illegible

—p.171 The Postmodern Always Rings Twice: Constructing the Femme Fatale in 90s Cinema (164) missing author
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mendicant

In the winter of 1852, the Alta California newspaper reported that “there has never been so deplorable an exhibition of mendicancy in our streets as may be witnessed daily at this time ...”

—p.41 4. “All That Is Solid Melts into Air”: Gold Rush San Francisco (32) by Fred Glass
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