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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women trapped in a male body

[...] What if the "problem" is neither genetic nor psychological, but social? For what did "women trapped in a male body" do three hundred years ago? Maybe they expanded the social category of what it is to be male so that it was expansive enough to include the "female" traits they longed for.

—p.209 At the Multiplex, 2006 (179) by Zadie Smith
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"Change is possible." project/dystopian-fiction

[...] a story that in book form was an act of fury and lit a fire under the Thatcher-era kids who read it. Its message was not "Blow up the Houses of Parliament" or "Wear a white mask and knife people," for kids are not morons and understand what an allegory is. The message of V for Vendetta is "…

—p.207 At the Multiplex, 2006 (179) by Zadie Smith
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Marxist

Gaghan's talent is for Marxist explication, demonstrating how one transaction contains within it elements of the entire system it supports.

about Syriana

—p.202 At the Multiplex, 2006 (179) by Zadie Smith
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agitprop

a glowing review of a fine piece of agitprop leftist cinema

on George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck

—p.195 At the Multiplex, 2006 (179) by Zadie Smith
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