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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frisson

one can't help but experience a puritanical frisson

on Mad Men

—p.146 The Perverse Allure of Messy Lives (145) by Katie Roiphe
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cormorant

sheer verbal power, the cormorant-like ingestion of experience

a New Republic critique of Updike

—p.133 Rabbit at Rest (133) missing author
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her will to be different

[...] For a woman who had always believed in her own exceptionality, who had defined herself by her will to be different, to rise above, the terrifying democracy of illness is one of its most painful aspects. [...]

—p.122 Susan Sontag (117) by Katie Roiphe
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this self-conscious

[...] There is, in these pages, no sense of a woman comfortable in the world, a woman at ease. "Don't smile so much, sit up straight," she admonishes "Think about why I bite my nails at the movies.." How is it possible that anyone is this self-conscious? And how is it possible that this degree of c…

—p.118 Susan Sontag (117) by Katie Roiphe