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

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3 years, 4 months ago

Selina and I get on like a house on fire

Intriguingly enough, the only way I can make Selina actually want to go to bed with me is by not wanting to go to bed with her. It never fails. It really puts her in the mood. The trouble is, when I don’t want to go to bed with her (and it does happen), I don’t want to go to bed with her. When do…

—p.151 Money by Martin Amis
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3 years, 4 months ago

Selina and I get on like a house on fire

Intriguingly enough, the only way I can make Selina actually want to go to bed with me is by not wanting to go to bed with her. It never fails. It really puts her in the mood. The trouble is, when I don’t want to go to bed with her (and it does happen), I don’t want to go to bed with her. When do…

—p.151 by Martin Amis
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3 years, 4 months ago

she has never not had money inspo/characterisation

Yes, she sounds sane, doesn’t she, among all these other people I’m working around? But then she has always had money – she has never not had money. Money is carelessly present in the cut and texture of her clothes, her leathery accoutrements, in rug-brilliance and mouth tone. The long legs have tr…

—p.134 by Martin Amis
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they’re not down here project/panopticon

There is a sense, as you sit in your cab and tunnel through the grooves and traps, there is a sharper sense (there must be) of the smallness of human concerns – in New York, where you always feel the height and weight of the tall agencies. Control, purpose, meaning, they’re all up there. They’re no…

—p.130 by Martin Amis
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I kept incredulously ordering more drinks for/pq inspo/self-deprecation project/teacher-story

I had my reasons. Do you want to hear the good news first, or the bad news? The good news is that Martina called this morning and we’re having lunch tomorrow. The bad news is that the good news made me feel so relieved and excited that I ran out to a bar and drank a bunch of big ones. Yeah? you’l…

—p.126 by Martin Amis