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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Kafka at an Amherst/Mt. Holyoke mixer

[...] Modern party-dance is simply writhing to suggestive music. It is ridiculous, silly to watch and excruciatingly embarrassing to perform. It is ridiculous, and yet absolutely everyone does it, so that it is the person who does not want _to do the ridiculous thing who feels out of place and un…

—p.158 The Broom of the System 9 (146) by David Foster Wallace
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fulgent

A madness, last night, in the fulgent bath of the Midwestern moon.

Robert Gerber at Lenore's parents' wedding

—p.155 9 (146) by David Foster Wallace
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care for a Corfu nut?

[...] Care for a Corfu nut, by the way? No? They're quite good. I got them in Canada, fishing. [...]

—p.153 9 (146) by David Foster Wallace
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no use at all

[...] the patients there couldn't remember the names for things, televisions, water, doors ... and so under Gramma Lenore's influence he had them identified with their function? [...] So the door is 'What we go from room to room through'? Water is 'What we drink, without color'? Television is 'What…

—p.150 9 (146) by David Foster Wallace
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