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(adjective) of the same or equal age, antiquity, or duration

29

From its very inception, which was coeval with this country’s inception, the American circus has been the imaginative grounds of American politics

—p.29 It’s a Circle: On the Closing of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (29) by Joshua Cohen
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1 year, 3 months ago

From its very inception, which was coeval with this country’s inception, the American circus has been the imaginative grounds of American politics

—p.29 It’s a Circle: On the Closing of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (29) by Joshua Cohen
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1 year, 3 months ago

a medicine prepared by an unqualified person, especially one that is not considered effective; a scheme or remedy for bringing about some social or political reform or improvement

33

Also “appearance,” as in Barnum’s nostrum: “Put on the appearance of business, and generally the reality will follow.”

thought this meant like 'platitude' oops lol

—p.33 It’s a Circle: On the Closing of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (29) by Joshua Cohen
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1 year, 3 months ago

Also “appearance,” as in Barnum’s nostrum: “Put on the appearance of business, and generally the reality will follow.”

thought this meant like 'platitude' oops lol

—p.33 It’s a Circle: On the Closing of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (29) by Joshua Cohen
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1 year, 3 months ago

(adjective) empyreal / (noun) the highest heaven or heavenly sphere in ancient and medieval cosmology usually consisting of fire or light / (noun) the true and ultimate heavenly paradise / (noun) firmament heavens / (noun) an ideal place or state

99

dwell instead amid the empyrean of the unmentionable

—p.99 Exit Bernie (99) by Joshua Cohen
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1 year, 3 months ago

dwell instead amid the empyrean of the unmentionable

—p.99 Exit Bernie (99) by Joshua Cohen
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1 year, 3 months ago

(adjective) of the same or equal age, antiquity, or duration

106

a descriptor that the Nazis, to say nothing of coeval Poles, would have disputed

—p.106 Exit Bernie (99) by Joshua Cohen
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1 year, 3 months ago

a descriptor that the Nazis, to say nothing of coeval Poles, would have disputed

—p.106 Exit Bernie (99) by Joshua Cohen
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1 year, 3 months ago

(adjective) full of danger or uncertainty; precarious

107

To date, Sanders’s most public, but also most parlous, statements on his own Semitism occurred in the first two of his two-person debates with Hillary

—p.107 Exit Bernie (99) by Joshua Cohen
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1 year, 3 months ago

To date, Sanders’s most public, but also most parlous, statements on his own Semitism occurred in the first two of his two-person debates with Hillary

—p.107 Exit Bernie (99) by Joshua Cohen
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1 year, 3 months ago

(noun) a figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated (as “crown” in “lands belonging to the crown”)

110

What would redeem this self-hating morass of identity synecdoche and self-eradicating metonymy was America, a country ripe for personal or racial or religious reinvention

—p.110 Exit Bernie (99) by Joshua Cohen
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1 year, 3 months ago

What would redeem this self-hating morass of identity synecdoche and self-eradicating metonymy was America, a country ripe for personal or racial or religious reinvention

—p.110 Exit Bernie (99) by Joshua Cohen
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1 year, 3 months ago

(adjective) of the same or equal age, antiquity, or duration

136

Fiction has long been described in the terms of a coeval technology, at least since the fade of the vacuum tube, but it was the genius of the systems novelists to produce fiction expressly along the same schematics

—p.136 First Family, Second Life: On Thomas Pynchon (129) by Joshua Cohen
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1 year, 3 months ago

Fiction has long been described in the terms of a coeval technology, at least since the fade of the vacuum tube, but it was the genius of the systems novelists to produce fiction expressly along the same schematics

—p.136 First Family, Second Life: On Thomas Pynchon (129) by Joshua Cohen
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1 year, 3 months ago

(verb) to expose to shame or blame by means of falsehood and misrepresentation / (verb) violate betray

177

Since the originals of Carver’s stories are often two or three times longer than the canonical versions, what Lish did to them (and gloated about doing to them) requires another verb. Not “edit” but “traduce,” “violate,” “molest.”

—p.177 Editing the I: On Gordon Lish (176) by Joshua Cohen
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1 year, 3 months ago

Since the originals of Carver’s stories are often two or three times longer than the canonical versions, what Lish did to them (and gloated about doing to them) requires another verb. Not “edit” but “traduce,” “violate,” “molest.”

—p.177 Editing the I: On Gordon Lish (176) by Joshua Cohen
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1 year, 3 months ago

(adjective) of, relating to, or resembling the poetry of Anacreon / (adjective) convivial or amatory in tone or theme / (noun) a poem in the manner of Anacreon / (noun) a drinking song or light lyric

183

“The Star-Spangled Banner,” by contrast, is bombastic anacreontic macaronic pseudomartial beer hall music.

wow

—p.183 Lip Service: On Aretha and Beyoncé (182) by Joshua Cohen
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1 year, 3 months ago

“The Star-Spangled Banner,” by contrast, is bombastic anacreontic macaronic pseudomartial beer hall music.

wow

—p.183 Lip Service: On Aretha and Beyoncé (182) by Joshua Cohen
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1 year, 3 months ago

(of a coat of arms or charge) adjoin (another) so that only half of each is visible. (verb) halve or reduce to the half

219

Maybe Leopardi’s point is that for some things, for some dimidiate things, “happiness” is plain “living”?

what

—p.219 Zibaldone Diary (216) by Joshua Cohen
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1 year, 3 months ago

Maybe Leopardi’s point is that for some things, for some dimidiate things, “happiness” is plain “living”?

what

—p.219 Zibaldone Diary (216) by Joshua Cohen
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1 year, 3 months ago