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

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designed in the 1960s by a notorious architect of prisons

Ed said: Maybe we won’t have to move? But how could we possibly stay? Those that don’t know how to be pros get evicted. Said Queen Latifah. It’s not just a question of money, though his adjunct salary is not going to cut it. It’s that one way or another, one or the other of us is going to have to f…

—p.51 The Guest Lecture by Martin Riker
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care so much more and so vapidly

But he failed to foresee our shortcomings. Presumably he did not actually believe the next hundred years would be free of wars and population growth, but he had no way of knowing, for example, that TV would arrive, filling our days with its nonsense. Then the internet. How mass psychological manipu…

—p.34 by Martin Riker
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those farts came all the way from China

I wish I were really in those rooms right now, one of those rooms instead of this one. This whole hotel smells like laundry. No, like a smell sprayed from a can. That time Ali and I were in line at the pharmacy and saw, on a storage shelf over the cashier’s shoulder, a cardboard box labeled “Farts …

—p.20 by Martin Riker
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