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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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very great, bad, or overwhelming

36

hellaciously unfun to read

—p.36 by David Foster Wallace
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hellaciously unfun to read

—p.36 by David Foster Wallace
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traveling from place to place, especially working or based in various places for relatively short periods

46

and sort of did the peripatetic writer

—p.46 by David Foster Wallace
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and sort of did the peripatetic writer

—p.46 by David Foster Wallace
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plural of nexus

an itinerant minstrel

92

jongleur ballad

—p.92 by David Foster Wallace
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jongleur ballad

—p.92 by David Foster Wallace
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relating to stone and gems and the work involved in engraving, cutting, or polishing

93

very lapidary prose

—p.93 by David Foster Wallace
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very lapidary prose

—p.93 by David Foster Wallace
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(adj) occluding or tending to occlude (stop, close up, obstruct, etc)

94

occlusive seal

—p.94 by David Foster Wallace
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occlusive seal

—p.94 by David Foster Wallace
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(noun; historical; law) the deliberate concealment of one's knowledge of a treasonable act or a felony; (literary) Harold Bloom's term for when strong writers misinterpret their literary predecessors so as to clear imaginative space for themselves

skip or dance about in a lively or playful way

132

grotesque, capering figure

—p.132 by David Foster Wallace
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grotesque, capering figure

—p.132 by David Foster Wallace
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speak rapidly and unintelligibly, typically through fear or shock

relating to or characteristic of the operas of German composer Richard Wagner

157

it means a sort of Wagnerian falling into

—p.157 by David Foster Wallace
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it means a sort of Wagnerian falling into

—p.157 by David Foster Wallace
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