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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precariat

The growth of the "precariat", in this view, has undermined workers’ power at the point of production.

—p.11 The Forgotten Militants (9) missing author
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the physical comes to dominate us

Because we feel ourselves first and foremost as physical beings, the physical comes to dominate us: Beloved uncles die, parents are displaced, cousins go to war, children suffer misfortune, love becomes a trap. The deeper in you go, the more it hurts to get out. Disaster (sickness, death, loss) is …

—p.243 The Brain-Dead Megaphone: Essays Buddha Boy (211) by George Saunders
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crèche

The effect is now oddly crèche-like.

—p.224 Buddha Boy (211) by George Saunders
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