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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anodyne

Another anodyne would obviously be to widen the access road and make it two-way.

—p.282 §24 (258) by David Foster Wallace
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mechanically raised out of a body of water

[...] The employee beside me now looked, peripherally, as though he'd been mechanically raised out of a body of water, which made the pretense of my not noticing the incredible sweating even more creepy and farcical. [...]

—p.281 §24 (258) by David Foster Wallace
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for all practical purposes decapitated a soybean farmer

A further irony: During an April 1987 tornado outside De Kalb, a detached portion of one of these FARM SAFETY billboards whirled in and for all practical purposes decapitated a soybean farmer--that was pretty much it for the 4-H sign.

—p.277 §24 (258) by David Foster Wallace
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only as good as your last sales quarter archive/silicon-jest

[...] the point is that I journeyed to Peoria on whatever particular day in May from my family's home in Philo, to which my brief return had been shall we say untriumphant, and where certain members of my family had more or less been looking at their watches impatiently the whole brief time I was h…

—p.259 §24 (258) by David Foster Wallace
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