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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I am now going to shut it

[...] 'Everyone strives to reach the Law,' says the man, 'so how does it happen that for all these many years no one but myself has ever begged for admittance?' The doorkeeper recognizes that the man has reached his end, and, to let his failing senses catch the words, roars in his ear: 'No one else…

—p.4 Before the Law (3) by Franz Kafka
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importunity

wearies the doorkeeper by his importunity

I stupidly confused importune with inopportune so I was confused but this makes total sense lol

—p.3 Before the Law (3) by Franz Kafka
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an unambiguous positive

For example, recent fast food strikes brought forth numerous predictions that raising the minimum wage would lead to automation. Given how deplorable these jobs are, we consider their automation an unambiguous positive.

—p.230 Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work Notes (201) by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek