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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belie

This is religious time, and is belied by the novel itself, which tells us in its every comic, secular scene that Mr Biswas's life cannot be comprehended in one glance. The novel asks us to rise up against its own determinism

—p.21 Why? (1) by James Wood
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vertiginous

the vertiginous sensation of possessing Jesus's power

—p.14 Why? (1) by James Wood
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baleful

in order to deliver this baleful, Kierkegaardian news

—p.6 Why? (1) by James Wood
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theodicy

the formal term for the attempt to reconcile the suffering and meaninglessness of life with the notion of a providential, benign and powerful deity. Theodicy is a project at times ingenious, bleak, necessary, magnificent and platitudinous.

—p.5 Why? (1) by James Wood
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