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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belles-lettres

The term 'fine writing', or belles lettres, is in this sense ambiguous: it denotes a sort of writing which is generally highly regarded, while not necessarily committing you to the opinion that a particular specimen of it is 'good'.

—p.10 Introduction: What is Literature? (1) by Terry Eagleton
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ontology

As the philosophers might say, 'literature' and 'weed' are functional rather than ontological terms: they tell us about what we do, not about the fixed being of things.

—p.9 Introduction: What is Literature? (1) by Terry Eagleton
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laconic

admire its laconic plainness or low-keyed sobriety

—p.6 Introduction: What is Literature? (1) by Terry Eagleton
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Steinbeck on private ownership

Perhaps the most vivid description of the American concept of fraternity is found in a passage from John Steinbeck's 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath. Steinbeck describes a desperately impoverished family, dispossessed tenant farmers from Oklahoma, camped out at the edge of Highway 66, sharing thei…

—p.248 Philosophy and Social Hope Looking Backwards from the Year 2096 (243) by Richard M. Rorty
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