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

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what’s so shameful about wanting

Loneliness is not supposed to induce empathy, but like Wojnarowicz’s diaries and Klaus Nomi’s voice, that painting of Warhol was one of the things that most medicated my own feelings of loneliness, giving me a sense of the potential beauty present in a frank declaration that one is human and as suc…

—p.279 The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
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loss is a cousin of loneliness

I was not the only person to find the fruit affecting. In a monograph for Frieze about Zoe Leonard’s work, the critic Jenni Sorkin describes seeing the installation for the first time while wandering irritably around the Philadelphia Museum of Art some time around the beginning of the millennium. ‘…

—p.261 by Olivia Laing
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pelagic

trapped in the squalid gyre of the Pacific trash vortex, breaking down into pelagic plastics that are themselves eaten by sea turtles and albatross

—p.248 by Olivia Laing
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panoply

same panoply of communities, in fact, that still colonise the web today

—p.230 by Olivia Laing
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indigent

Despite his talent, Hujar was perpetually indigent, living on the very edge of destitution in his loft on Second Avenue

—p.196 by Olivia Laing
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