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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trellis

He had trellis work

—p.141 Susto (129) missing author
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the world was ours for the taking

[...] We girls - not one indigenous student among us - received a standing ovation as we gathered at the front of the stage in our costumes, linked arms, and took a grand, ecstatic bow. We were being raised to understand that the world was ours for the taking, because that had long been true, even …

—p.123 The California PAgeant (103) missing author
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trammeled

a beautiful, untrammeled place

—p.107 The California PAgeant (103) missing author
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we sometimes have to unlearn these early teachings

We know the things we know because they've been taught to us, sometimes directly, sometimes obliquely, legend-by-osmosis. The things we don't know are things we've never heard bout - whatever has been left out of the conversation, struck from the record, or simply never even considered. We sometime…

—p.107 The California PAgeant (103) missing author
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senescent

Senescent and dwelling

huh. i thought it meant sleepy

—p.79 Prayer to the Redwood (79) missing author
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