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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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in a slanting or oblique position

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I look at it, canted dangerously with just a bit of hull still above water

—p.192 by Eula Biss
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3 years, 5 months ago


There was even a mystery floor with a canted roof and oddly shaped windows creating a visual effect that nauseated the legal department staffers housed there

—p.357 by Douglas Edwards
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5 years, 3 months ago


But every aspect of my existence has canted me in a dark space.

—p.260 Self Help (163) by Mary Karr
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7 years, 5 months ago


When I got the table for the dining room I moved the loveseat into the living room, canted to face the corner.

—p.167 by Merritt Tierce
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1 year, 3 months ago


She followed the lieutenant down a hallway pocked with doors suggestively canted

—p.141 by Jennifer Egan
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1 year, 8 months ago


someone painted the same pattern across the canted floor of the swimming pool and over the gravel in the car park

—p.101 News from the Sun (76) by J.G. Ballard
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4 years, 6 months ago

elderly refugees camping on the canted decks of a multi-storey car park in Dover

—p.122 Theatre of War (118) by J.G. Ballard
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4 years, 6 months ago

Beyond the tilting fences he could see the drained swimming pools of Cocoa Beach, each a complex geometry of light and shadow, canted decks encoding the secret entrances to another dimension

—p.28 Myths of the Near Future (7) by J.G. Ballard
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4 years, 6 months ago


I just couldn’t stop seeing my marriage except colored by our divorce, and I wrote the same pages over and over, not making stuff up, but canting the material one way, then another. At first I wrote events that cast him as perfect and me as a drunken slag. Then I wrote him as an icy WASP and myself as a tender heart.

—p.179 Major Reversals in Cherry and Lit (173) by Mary Karr
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5 years, 3 months ago