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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intervening in one's own dreams

But from what point does one intervene in one's own dreams, from the inside, without waking? And from what point does one intervene in reality, from the inside, though without believing in it?

—p.30 Fragments: Cool Memories III, 1990-1995 by Jean Baudrillard
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alterity

the alterity of dreams

—p.30 by Jean Baudrillard
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the storage of pleasure

Storage of pleasure [jouissance] in the speculative circuits of capital (the Stock Exchange). Just as energy is stored in superconductors, with a view to recovering it one day. But isn't this, rather, a way of getting rid of it? The storage of pleasure is the pleasure of storage.

—p.27 by Jean Baudrillard
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catalectic

in a state of cataleptic distraction

—p.27 by Jean Baudrillard
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stygian

Everyone has an air of déjà vu about them, and they float like shadows over the waters of the Styx.

oddly gorgeous prose

—p.25 by Jean Baudrillard
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