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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welter

he wants to discipline this welter of detail

—p.42 Flaubert and the Rise of the Flâneur (39) by James Wood
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troika

the third horse of this troika

might be the first time I've seen this used to refer to something other than the IMF et al, lol

—p.29 Narrating (5) by James Wood
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quiddity

Updike must work to establish the quiddity of his character

I totally forgot the meaning of quiddity :(

a truly awful excerpt from Terrorist follows

—p.23 Narrating (5) by James Wood
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free indirect style

His stories, through written technically in authorial third person, seem to emanate from a community of Sicilian peasants; they are thick with proverbial sayings, truisms, and homely similes.

—p.20 Narrating (5) by James Wood
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