Welcome to Bookmarker!

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).

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slurping French Champagne in time to the music project/secret-life project/valet-story

What were these six weeks about? What were we waiting for? Were we hoping for something? We seemed to be living in silence. My husband had brought books to read: he had perfect pitch as far as language was concerned and, like a great musician, could tell the false note from the true. He was like Lá…

—p.26 Portraits of a Marriage by Sándor Márai
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showers seem to gush constantly topic/americana

[...] To old, dirty Europe, America has always seemed aglow with toothpaste, Gleem and deodorizers for every intimate inch. Showers seem to gush constantly. And Hollywood -- every image has been dry-cleaned. We know that America is pathologically, obsessively, fanatically obsessed with hygiene. Thi…

—p.237 Shopping In Space: Essays On America's Blank Generation Fiction Death in Disneyland (235) by Elizabeth Young
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nonetheless chasing the Perfect Cool inspo/characterisation project/panopticon

Oh, misanthropy and sourness. Gary wanted to enjoy being a man of wealth and leisure, but the country was making it none too easy. All around him, millions of newly minted American millionaires were engaged in the identical pursuit of feeling extraordinary—of buying the perfect Victorian, of skiing…

—p.226 The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
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colonies are the outhouses of the European soul inspo/misc

Just a big hunk of desert, no more maids, no field-hands, no laborers for the construction or the mining—wait, wait a minute there, yes it's Karl Marx, that sly old racist skipping away with his teeth together and his eyebrows up trying to make believe it's nothing but Cheap Labor and Overseas Mark…

—p.322 Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon