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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stanchion

Sometimes as I walked, roaming under the stanchions of the Williamsburg Bridge

—p.48 by Olivia Laing
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saturnine

the Hoppers call it Nighthawks, after the beaked profile of the woman’s saturnine companion

thought it meant dignified

—p.42 by Olivia Laing
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salubrious

moved into Edward’s marginally more salubrious room on Washington Square

i thought it meant like "naughty" lmao

—p.37 by Olivia Laing
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no access to the self that experienced the loneliness

After Fromm-Reichmann’s death, other psychologists slowly began to turn their attention to the subject. In 1975, the social scientist Robert Weiss edited a seminal study, Loneliness: The Experience of Emotional and Social Isolation. He too opened by acknowledging the subject’s neglect, noting wryly…

—p.26 by Olivia Laing
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pallid

There is no colour in existence that so powerfully communicates urban alienation, the atomisation of human beings inside the edifices they create, as this noxious pallid green

—p.21 by Olivia Laing
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