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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impecunious

He ekes out a precarious living as an editor at a vanity press, a man of all work at the impecunious Little Magazine

—p.46 Slouching towards Grubnet: The Author in the Age of Publicity (44) by Gerald Howard
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farrago

This whole farrago stopped the British literary-industrial complex in its tracks for weeks

the Martin Amis scandal lol

—p.46 Slouching towards Grubnet: The Author in the Age of Publicity (44) by Gerald Howard
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anodyne

being a novelist, even one whose name was o the lips of every literary saloniste and cocktail party-goer, no ticket to dignity and no anodyne to status anxiety

on a photo of Martin Amis, Bret Easton Ellis, Will Self and Patrick McGrath

—p.45 Slouching towards Grubnet: The Author in the Age of Publicity (44) by Gerald Howard
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meretricious

a whole new generation who cannot remember alternatives to "marketplace" meretriciousness is coming to fruition, and that, surely, has an effect on how younger people view what Art (and people) are

this is depressing af

—p.42 Bad Times (39) by Janice Galloway
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