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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bulwark

a profound sense of sexual inadequacy, which he bulwarked by all sorts of theories about sexual technique

—p.44 The artist as exemplary sufferer (39) by Susan Sontag
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tendentious

consciousness--what used to be called, rather tendentiously, the faculty of contemplation

—p.29 On style (15) by Susan Sontag
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dross

any particular morality has its dross, those elements which are no more than a defense of limited social interests and class values

—p.25 On style (15) by Susan Sontag
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hermetic

Contemporary writers and other artists with a style that is intricate, hermetic, demanding--not to speak to "beautiful"--get their ration of unstinting praise.

—p.16 On style (15) by Susan Sontag
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hermeneutic

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.

it's a nice-sounding sentence though i'm not sure I'm convinced here

—p.14 Against interpretation (3) by Susan Sontag
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