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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dialectical materialism

Remainder's way turns out to be an extreme form of dialectical materialism--it's a book about a man who builds in order to feel.

—p.87 Two Directions for the Novel (72) by Zadie Smith
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hinterland

the surprise discovery of his wife's lactose intolerance becomes "an unknown hinterland to our marriage"

quoting Netherland

—p.80 Two Directions for the Novel (72) by Zadie Smith
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massif

over boundless massifs of vapor

quoted from Netherland by Joseph O'Neill

—p.71 F. Kafka, Everyman (58) by Zadie Smith
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I have hardly anything in common with myself

What have I in common with Jews? I have hardly anything in common with myself, and should stand very quietly in a corner, content than I can breathe.

—p.69 F. Kafka, Everyman (58) by Franz Kafka