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

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from which light was absent

If the zone where I found myself was inhabited, it could in any case only be by neohumans; the organism of a savage could never have stood up to the journey I had made. I now anticipated without joy, and even with a certain annoyance, an encounter with one of my fellow creatures. The death of Fox, …

—p.335 The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq
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rictus

his eyes frozen in a rictus of horror

—p.268 by Michel Houellebecq
notable
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salutary

shaped by an event that provokes a salutary shock in her

—p.247 by Michel Houellebecq
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a world where the stakes are simplistic and pitiless

I had left my coitus cream at the Lutétia, and this was my first mistake; I came much too quickly, and, for the first time, I sensed she was a little disappointed. She continued to move, a little, on my sex, which was becoming irredeemably soft, then moved aside with a resigned grimace. I would hav…

—p.228 by Michel Houellebecq