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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panoply

same panoply of communities, in fact, that still colonise the web today

—p.230 by Olivia Laing
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indigent

Despite his talent, Hujar was perpetually indigent, living on the very edge of destitution in his loft on Second Avenue

—p.196 by Olivia Laing
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paucity

apart from these neighbourly interventions, there is a vast paucity of human interaction, combined with an internal furore of emotion, particularly rage

—p.157 by Olivia Laing
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hinterland

Anyone who’s seen photographs of Harlow’s monkeys clinging to wire models or huddled in isolation chambers will know that these are deeply disturbing experiments, carried out in an uneasy hinterland between the scientifically valid and the ethically abhorrent

—p.148 by Olivia Laing
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nonpareil

they have established Darger as an outsider artist nonpareil

—p.140 by Olivia Laing
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