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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7 years, 7 months ago

awaiting the formality of their first cardiac inspo/misc

[...] In Philo, educating yourself was something you had to do in spite of school, not because of it -- which is basically why so many of my high school peers are still there in Philo even now, selling one another insurance, drinking supermarket liquor, watching television, awaiting the formality o…

—p.295 The Pale King §24 (258) by David Foster Wallace
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7 years, 7 months ago

Durkheim's theories of suicide archive/silicon-jest

[...] sitting still and concentrating on just one task for an extended length of time is, as a pratical matter, impossible. If you said, 'I spent the whole night in the library, working on some client's sociology paper,' you really meant that you'd spent between two and three hours working on it an…

—p.293 §24 (258) by David Foster Wallace
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7 years, 7 months ago

the as it were forest

[...] One of the quirks of human memory is that the most vivid, detailed recall doesn't usually concern the things that are most germane. The as it were forest. [...]

—p.291 §24 (258) by David Foster Wallace
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7 years, 7 months ago

small-scale reenactment of the fall of Saigon

[...] the whole thing looked haphazardly jerry-rigged and chaotic, and one figured that there couldn't possibly be this many newly arrived and/or reassigned transfers to the REC as a typical daily thing, or else the disembarkation and check-in system would be much more permanent-looking and streaml…

—p.283 §24 (258) by David Foster Wallace
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7 years, 7 months ago

anodyne

Another anodyne would obviously be to widen the access road and make it two-way.

—p.282 §24 (258) by David Foster Wallace
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