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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suspended between two types of meaninglessness

14.10 I didn’t let myself be carried through the doors, though: at the last instant, I held back. This wasn’t easy: bodies were wedging me in on all sides. I had to push against them, turn myself around, then hoist and grab at passing arms and shoulders in order to move the other way. At some point…

—p.185 Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
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gantry

Gantries were coming down now

—p.183 by Tom McCarthy
uncertain
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vertiginous

I experienced a vertiginous excitement at the prospect of this happening

—p.183 by Tom McCarthy
notable
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its implementation had been deemed a great success

The Project’s first phase had gone live: it was up and running, rolled out, operational, whatever. Its implementation had been deemed a great success. By whom? I don’t know. Deemers. And the Company’s contribution had been praised, by praisers, as quite brilliant. And my own input into this had bee…

—p.156 by Tom McCarthy