Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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1 year, 11 months ago

because his shoes fail to match
J R

[...] You see I still have confidence in you sir, or should I say in the artist who dwells within you, the artist who disdains such mundane details as selecting a fresh shirt in the morning, who steps forth into the workaday world the rest of us inhabit indifferent to the glances he draws because h…

—p.476 J R J R (1) by William Gaddis
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1 year, 11 months ago

simply the poor quality of the photocopy

—Damn it Beaton haven’t got time to go through this mess, this the people we’re talking about?
—One of them yes sir, this appeared in an upstate newspaper during their takeover of an ailing textile firm called Eagle . . .
—Couple of blacks, are they?
—No I think not sir that, I believe that’s si…

—p.457 J R (1) by William Gaddis
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1 year, 11 months ago

stolid

caught a rise and fall of yellow skirting another stolid mass of blue toward the elevators

—p.440 J R (1) by William Gaddis
notable
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1 year, 11 months ago

God damn instinct for the jugular

—Well damn it I, don’t you think I . . . he came down against the chair drawn up to the typewriter,—writer who can’t even find a pencil, God damn instinct for the jugular told me the reason I don’t finish it I’m afraid to compete with myself, terrible slowness of things in a dream . . . and he tore…

—p.431 J R (1) by William Gaddis
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1 year, 11 months ago

would you like to buy some greeting cards

—Oh, then would, would you like to buy some greeting cards then?
—Tom got a boy here selling greeting cards, what grade are you in.
—Six M, Mrs Manzinel . . .
—Tom boy out here working his way through six N selling greeting cards. What’s the greetings.
—Well see these are all occasion cards, li…

—p.429 J R (1) by William Gaddis