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

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from silk to bare skin and suspender inspo/imagined-desire

All Margherita's chains and fetters are chiming, black skirt furled back to her waist, stockings pulled up tight in classic cusps by the suspenders of the boned black rig she's wearing underneath. How the penises of Western men have leapt, for a century, to the sight of this singular point at the t…

—p.402 Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
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European passport-psychoses

"Greta, somebody also thought it prudent to name me Max Schlepzig." He shows her the pass he got from Säure Bummer.

She gazes at it, then at Slothrop briefly. She's begun to tremble again. Some mixture of desire and fear. "I knew it."

"Knew what?"

Looking away, submissive. "Knew he was d…

—p.401 by Thomas Pynchon
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leading real, paracinematíc lives

Buenos Aires, on through Spottbilligfilm AG in Berlin (another IG outlet) from whom von Göll used to get cut rates on most of his film stock, especially on the peculiar and slow-moving "Emulsion J," invented by Laszlo Jamf, which somehow was able, even under ordinary daylight, to render the human s…

—p.393 by Thomas Pynchon
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scrim

But he gets so desperate with them, moving behind their scrims of European pain

—p.365 by Thomas Pynchon
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this alphabet is really something

And print just goes marching on without him. Copy boys go running down the rows of desks trailing smeared galleys in the air. Native printers get crash courses from experts airlifted in from Tiflis on how to set up that NTA. Printed posters go up in the cities, in Samarkand and Pishpek, Verney and …

—p.361 by Thomas Pynchon