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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epistle

her objectless epistle "mirrors" it perfectly

referring to the text of WM (Kate's letter)

—p.88 The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress (73) by David Foster Wallace
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what Sacher-Masoch did for whips

Mr. T. Pynchon, who has done in literature for paranoia what Sacher-Masoch did for whips, [...]

—p.88 The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress (73) by David Foster Wallace
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schizofy

Scholars tend to schizofy Wittgenstein, counterposing the "early" W of the Tractatus and the "late" W of the Investigations, The Blue and Brown Books, and Philosophical Investigations.

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—p.86 The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress (73) by David Foster Wallace
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I EXIST

[...] "I EXIST" is the signal that throbs under most voluntary writing--& all good writing. [...]

—p.83 The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress (73) by David Foster Wallace
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prenominate

The other side of the prenominate 2-bind--the side rendered explicitly by WM's opening and close--is why people who write need to do so as a mode of communication.

—p.83 The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress (73) by David Foster Wallace
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