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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liminal

Clouzot's Odette occupies a liminal space, trapped between the pure and perverse

—p.109 Infinite Jest and Modern French Film (101) by Z. Bart Thornton
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something's gone that will never return

[...] In Malle's black-and-white world, animated by the haunting strains of Erik Satie's score, Ronet's Alain Leroy is a lost cause, a narcissist with no hope of growing up. Malle claims,

It wasn't really the suicide that interested me, but how a man reflects on his youth and realizes, in the …

—p.107 Infinite Jest and Modern French Film (101) by Z. Bart Thornton
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interstice

These interstices where Wallace scholarship can find something like the new voices we are being told it so desperately needs?

—p.94 David Foster Wallace and Music: The Grunge Writer and the Hitherto Criminally Overlooked Importance of Signifying Rappers (89) by Tony McMahon
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a cheap holiday in other people's misery

A recurrent situationist theme: the idea of 'the vacation' as a sort of loop of alienation and domination, a symbol of the false promises of modern life, a notion that as CLUB MED--A CHEAP HOLIDAY IN OTHER PEOPLE'S MISERY would become graffiti in Paris in May 1968, and then, it seemed, turned into …

—p.93 David Foster Wallace and Music: The Grunge Writer and the Hitherto Criminally Overlooked Importance of Signifying Rappers (89) by Greil Marcus