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

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alterity

I opened a window—not a real actual window, rather an otherness or alterity—a sill for my filth.

oh boy

—p.142 An Interruption (140) by Chad Harbach
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to get all local about it

It’s disgusting, how I’ve been managed: the surveillance hut and passport, then this moment’s notice trip—and now to be lubbered up against an intertidal watercooler for office chitchat with Kori Dienerowitz.

That was the straw that broke this camel’s back, to get all local about it.

—p.107 Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen
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if I lost even a single book

My necessities were books. I read a book at school, another to and from school, yet another at the beach, which was the closest escape from my father’s dying. Though when I walked alone it was far. Though I wasn’t allowed to walk alone when younger—so young that my concern wasn’t the danger to myse…

—p.101 by Joshua Cohen
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dimidiate

It was a spit of beach along a salina bayscape. A dimidiate moon, and stars falling darkly pacific.

so like half moon? lol

—p.82 The Intellectual Situation (Death Is Not The End) (77) by n+1
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autochthonous

We got sommeliered by a guy with a cowbelling tastevin. Finn went white, I went red, both of new autochthonous vintage

(reference to earlier when he's asked if he prefers to eat within the zip code)

—p.78 The Intellectual Situation (Death Is Not The End) (77) by n+1
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