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Exit Bernie

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Cohen, J. (2018). Exit Bernie. In Cohen, J. Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction. Fitzcarraldo Editions, pp. 99-119

(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

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dwell instead amid the empyrean of the unmentionable

—p.99 by Joshua Cohen
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dwell instead amid the empyrean of the unmentionable

—p.99 by Joshua Cohen
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(adjective) of the same or equal age, antiquity, or duration

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

—p.106 by Joshua Cohen
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a descriptor that the Nazis, to say nothing of coeval Poles, would have disputed

—p.106 by Joshua Cohen
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(adjective) full of danger or uncertainty; precarious

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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 by Joshua Cohen
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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 by Joshua Cohen
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(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”)

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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 by Joshua Cohen
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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 by Joshua Cohen
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