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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anamorphic

anamorphosis and anagram of all the fragments

—p.58 by Jean Baudrillard
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chiasmus

the word 'inexorable' is itself inexorable [...] by the rainbow sweep of vowels which, in its cadence, describes an implacable curve--each syllable peels off irrevocably, culminating in the chiasmus of the 'X'

omg

—p.58 by Jean Baudrillard
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prurient

revealing a prurient urge to search people out

about a detective show lol

—p.55 by Jean Baudrillard
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a mental AIDS

'Liberated' East Berlin exports to the West its sexual promiscuity, which thrived in the shadow of dictatorship, and consequently AIDS too, in the form of a contingent of unregulated prostitutes. The West, by contrast, exports its stereo-video-porn to the East, the image and simulacram of sex, of w…

—p.51 by Jean Baudrillard
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interstice

There is scarcely any living memory of boredom. This is why it can superimpose itself on all kinds of activities, even exciting ones, since it lives in the interstices.

—p.50 by Jean Baudrillard
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