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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protean

failing better is the only way to make (contingent, endlessly protean) meaning

—p.109 "Something to Do with Love": Writing and the Process of Communication (93) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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soporific

the soporific death by comfort of contemporary America as embodied in the eponymous film

on IJ

—p.105 "Something to Do with Love": Writing and the Process of Communication (93) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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the idem vs the ipse

[...] In Oneself as Another, the published version of his Gifford Lectures, Ricoeur posits the existence of two separate and opposing strands of individual identity, the idem and the ipse. In Ricoeur's conception of the self, "the narrative constructs the identity of the character"; we use st…

—p.103 "Something to Do with Love": Writing and the Process of Communication (93) by Clare Hayes-Brady