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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.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

(adj) situated away from the center of the body or from the point of attachment. "the distal end of the tibia" GEOLOGY: relating to or denoting the outer part of an area affected by geological activity. "the distal zone"

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Forests are falling to many things—drought, fire, sudden oak death, gypsy moths, pine and engraver beetles, rust, and plain old felling for farms and subdivisions. But there’s always the same distal cause

kind of like distant? not entirely sure

—p.452 CROWN (353) by Richard Powers
uncertain
4 years, 7 months ago


she entered to inhabit them a little while, until they became submerged, finding sanctuary in that part of herself which she looked upon distal and afraid, a residence as separate and alien, real or unreal

—p.299 PART II (279) by William Gaddis
notable
1 year, 11 months ago