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

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6 years, 10 months ago

there’d be no one left to fuck

I still wanted to know that the articles were being published, and in large quantities, but reading stories of abuse and humiliation, like the big Bill Cosby exposé from a few years back, was as stupefying as a hangover. I didn’t feel empowered; I only felt more hopeless. I wanted to watch the patr…

—p.124 n+1 Issue 31: Out There Two Stops (119) missing author
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variegated

I have noticed this tendency to reductionism in X before. The text is infinitely variegated, the subtext always the same.

—p.109 Two Stories (95) by Helen DeWitt
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limpid

spend the afternoons swimming in the limpid water

—p.102 Two Stories (95) by Helen DeWitt
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writ large

a terrible trial for poor Angus, who felt he’d done nothing to deserve it. He stalked off the yacht at the earliest possible opportunity, injured innocence writ large on his brow.

—p.101 Two Stories (95) by Helen DeWitt
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echt

a bevy (it really is the only word for it, echt B-movie stuff) of beautiful girls surrounded me

—p.97 Two Stories (95) by Helen DeWitt
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