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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locution

In college, women were locutionally reduced to earth, or impediment. 'Have you blasted her?' 'Drill her yet?'

from a Fieldbinder story

—p.350 16 (324) by David Foster Wallace
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blond and virile, with a socio-economic background

RICK: How do you know his age? That he's blond and virile, with a socio-economic background?

—p.347 16 (324) by David Foster Wallace
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nobody grins wryly

"And the writing was just so . . . This one line I remember: 'He grinned wryly.' Grinned wryly? Who grins wryly? Nobody grins wryly at all, except in stories. It wasn't real at all. It was like a story about a story. I put it on Mavis's desk with the ones about the proctologist and the snowblower."

—p.335 16 (324) by David Foster Wallace
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pretend I'm a sperm

JAY: [...] Only a strong membrane can suck in a sperm, Lenore. Here, I know, pretend I'm a sperm.

LENORE: I don't care for the way this session is going one bit.

JAY: No, really. Be secure. Pretend I'm a sperm cell. Here. I take the string out of the ... hood of my sweatshirt, affix it to my …

—p.331 16 (324) by David Foster Wallace
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