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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forces us to consider the futility of our own project/high-castle

[...] For it is most powerful when most allegorical, and its allegorical power has to do with its picture of ordinary human life as in fact a culture of death. That is to say, Ishiguro's book is at its best when, by asking us to consider the futility of cloned lives, it forces us to consider the fu…

—p.34 Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go (28) by James Wood
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being the spiders

[...] Madame was afraid of us. But she was afraid of us in the same way someone might be afraid of spiders. We hadn't been ready for that. It had never occurred to us to wonder how we would feel, being seen like that, being the spiders.

—p.32 Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go (28) by Kazuo Ishiguro
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sad, but only resignedly so project/high-castle

[...] her habit of addressing the reader as if the reader were the same as her--'I don't know how it was where you were, but at Hailsham . . .'--has a fragile pathos to it. She wants to be one of us, and in some way she assumes she is. The very dullness of these children, their lack of rebelliousne…

—p.31 Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go (28) by James Wood
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hermeneutic

Ishiguro, as ever, is interested in far foggier hermeneutics

—p.29 Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go (28) by James Wood
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