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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gloaming

I remember us "huddled" in the gloaming going to gloom.

interesting alliteration, not sure if I feel it though

—p.51 Footnotes & Endnotes (51) by Michael Martone
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there was no more Dave

I remember coming out of a screening of the film, The Wrestler, starring Mickey Rourke and his face, and thinking, "Shit, I gotta call Dave and tell him about this movie." And then remembering--it was like a stab--that there was no more Dave.

—p.48 I Remember David Foster Wallace (46) missing author
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DFW's four distinct styles

We published "Mr. Squishy" with the fake name, but I don't think we fooled anyone for very long. Dave had at least four distinct styles, maybe more, but "Mr. Squishy" was written in his most recognizable. (OK, acknowledging that this is ill-thought-out and incomplete, a stab at his four most clear-…

—p.40 Recollection (38) by Dave Eggers
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