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

we sometimes have to unlearn these early teachings

We know the things we know because they've been taught to us, sometimes directly, sometimes obliquely, legend-by-osmosis. The things we don't know are things we've never heard bout - whatever has been left out of the conversation, struck from the record, or simply never even considered. We sometime…

—p.107 Freeman's: California The California PAgeant (103) missing author
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senescent

Senescent and dwelling

huh. i thought it meant sleepy

—p.79 Prayer to the Redwood (79) missing author
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pullulating

Looking back, I wonder whether that hum I detected was the roar of technology pullulating just to the south.

oh I thought it meant undulating lol

—p.16 Seven Shorts (1) missing author
strange
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why my box is bigger than his project/panopticon

And while I haven't always ignored it, I can usually tell what's in my head and what's outside of it, which voice in the dark is imagined and which is real, but why I'm in here and he's out there, I'm not sure I can tell. Why my box is bigger than his.

—p.15 Seven Shorts (1) missing author
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he's doing sleeping in a box

[...] he'll ask how I'm doing. I don't ask how he's doing because I know how he's doing. He's doing homeless in Los Angeles for five years. He's doing sleeping in a box. Instead I ask if he needs anything - a blanket, food, money. There's always a pause before he tells me he's fine. I ask if he's s…

—p.11 Seven Shorts (1) missing author