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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virgule

the virgule we use to represent a line break in prose is the same glyph we use to indicate alternatives, the "either / or."

—p.299 Ben Lerner and Adam Fitzgerald (295) by Ben Lerner
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polysemous

experiences his incompetence as ambiguity or polysemy in Spanish

—p.299 Ben Lerner and Adam Fitzgerald (295) by Ben Lerner
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apophatic

rethink ontology through an existence awareness and demonstration of lexical instability (cue apophatic poetics)

i know what all the words mean, and yet...

—p.298 Ben Lerner and Adam Fitzgerald (295) by BOMB Magazine
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the novel ideally is not reducible to the political topic/literary-theory

[...] The novel ideally is not reducible to the political. It’s a journey toward meaning that transcends the frame of politics. Blood Meridian—just to think of a great novel that traverses the political—is not simply a book about the violent policies of the American government paying out for scalps…

—p.287 Rachel Kushner and Hari Kunzru (281) by Rachel Kushner
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