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

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there's nothing to build

There's nothing to build, I said. The world is going.

I know that, you replied. But there isn't anything we can do about it.

That's what I'm saying.

I looked at you looking at me. I heard that we were saying the same thing, though I didn't understand how it was possible for us to mean it s…

—p.204 Intimations: Stories You, disappearing (197) by Alexandra Kleeman
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I would never be shirking my responsibilities entirely

Ever since I was young, I had maintained a special agreement with myself wherein I was permitted to avoid thinking about whatever I wished, at that moment, to avoid thinking about, provided that I think instead about another problem that I had wished to avoid thinking about in the past. In this way…

—p.156 Intimation (151) by Alexandra Kleeman
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the mothers cried out for their calves

[...] A milk cow only lactates if she has recently given birth, and this means that each dairy cow must be bred back roughly once a year. Calving is continual, and crucial. At the same time, the calf must be displaced so that it does not consume the bulk of the milk that is to be collected and sold…

—p.101 I may not be the one you want, but I am the one for you (83) by Alexandra Kleeman
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