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

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5 years, 3 months ago

woozily intoxicated by new fatherhood

Rei was leaving agitated messages on my phone. I couldn’t bring myself to listen to them. Ignoring a string of emails with all-caps subject lines, I sent one to her telling her not to worry, that I was in no danger, just “taking some time to think.” I didn’t say where I was. Then I spent an hour sc…

—p.202 Red Pill by Hari Kunzru
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recondite

though I have no interest in being recondite for its own sake, I also have no gift for simplicity

—p.162 by Hari Kunzru
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paratactic

I’d accepted that I could only communicate in my own way, which is to say by generating a sort of paratactical blizzard of obscure cultural references and inviting my reader to fall through it with me

—p.162 by Hari Kunzru
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the executioner’s sorrow

[...] Carson forced open the boyfriend’s bloodied mouth and pushed the drill between his teeth. Although nothing was shown beyond a few impressionistic frames, it was terrible to watch, and somehow I had forgotten that these were not real events and I had only to press the space bar on my laptop to…

—p.72 by Hari Kunzru
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5 years, 3 months ago

the executioner’s sorrow

[...] Carson forced open the boyfriend’s bloodied mouth and pushed the drill between his teeth. Although nothing was shown beyond a few impressionistic frames, it was terrible to watch, and somehow I had forgotten that these were not real events and I had only to press the space bar on my laptop to…

—p.72 by Hari Kunzru