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

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3 years, 6 months ago

I was pregnant with every idea in the world

Someone had given the description of a person with blue hair and who was dressed like a schoolboy fleeing the scene. The band needs to split up, Alan said. We need them to go into hiding. We had a meeting at Duncan’s parents’ house; the four of us sat on the bed with a single bare light bulb illumi…

—p.78 This Is Memorial Device The Golden Light Coming From the Window and Spilling Over the Pavement Like a Perfect Dream (66) by David Keenan
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3 years, 6 months ago

it was a profound moment of worship

Her name was Ginny; I still remember her. She was lying with her legs spread on the bed with one hand holding onto the brass bedhead while wearing stockings and next to her this panty drawer was open and spilling over with lingerie. Oh my god, I said to myself. I looked between her legs and it was …

—p.69 The Golden Light Coming From the Window and Spilling Over the Pavement Like a Perfect Dream (66) by David Keenan
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she wasn’t a goddamn businesswoman

[...] honestly though, things had been coming to a head in terms of Vanity’s career anyway, she had peaked too young, she said, all the other girls had held back, they hadn’t done girl-on-girl right away, they hadn’t done anal or double penetration, and so they were able to demand higher fees and g…

—p.58 A Beautiful Form of Self-Scarification and Of Course Endlessly Attractive (49) by David Keenan
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passwords to a whole other kingdom of passion

[...] she was an artist, that’s how she saw herself, an artist that used sex and her body and gender and stuff like that – though she never talked about it in those kinds of terms, that wasn’t her style – and so early on we began doing music together where we would record ourselves having sex, she …

—p.51 A Beautiful Form of Self-Scarification and Of Course Endlessly Attractive (49) by David Keenan
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3 years, 6 months ago

what are you reading at the moment? inspo/characterisation

What are you reading at the moment? he asked me. Vanity of Duluoz by Jack Kerouac, I said (I fluffed it). Bullshit, he said. Don’t tell me, he said. Charles Bukowski. William fucking Burroughs. Patti fucking Smith. Jim fucking Thompson. Hermann fucking Hesse (Bullshit von fucking Bullshit). Try thi…

—p.46 Wisps of Blonde Sawdust (Blonde Stardust) (42) by David Keenan