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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7 years, 5 months ago

apostate

not a single little smug psalm-singing baggy-skinned apostate

—p.82 6 (81) by David Foster Wallace
notable
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monad

This was the world the monadic Vance Virogous received and mirrored through himself

not really sure what it means in this context

—p.76 5 (57) by David Foster Wallace
strange
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a special relationship with Richard Nixon

[...] through the miracle of television, Vance Vigorous enjoyed a special relationship with Richard Nixon. As Watergate wore on in brilliant color, Vance took to furtive looks, pinched whiteness around the bridge of his nose, refusals to explain his whereabouts or give reasons for what he did. My t…

—p.76 5 (57) by David Foster Wallace
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he would urinate up onto my hanging necktie

[...] he would urinate up onto my hanging necktie, a pale, sweetly thin jet, and there would be smells of powder, and my tie would be heavy at my throat, and would drip, and we would laugh together, toothless he and sad, sleepy I, at my urine-soaked tie.

—p.75 5 (57) by David Foster Wallace
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always a language problem

[...] she studied classics and philosophy and who knows what else under a mad crackpot genius named Wittgenstein, who believed that everything was words. Really. If your car would not start, it was apparently to be understood as a language problem. If you were unable to love, you were lost in langu…

—p.73 5 (57) by David Foster Wallace