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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transom

Some of the rooms had transoms that Manley or Davis could climb through.

—p.109 Centrally Located (85) by Jonathan Franzen
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trammeled

their pleasures were insufficiently trammeled by conscience and responsibility

—p.94 Centrally Located (85) by Jonathan Franzen
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if you took away Christ's divinity

[...] If you took away Christ's divinity, you were left with "Kum Ba Ya." You were left with "Let's hold hands and be nice to each other. Jesus' authority as a teacher--and whatever authority Mutton and company had as followers of his teachings--rested on his having had the balls to say, "I am the …

—p.80 Then Joy Breaks Through (52) by Jonathan Franzen
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sui generis

My memory of that shriveling and rolling was sui generis, distrinct from my other memories.

—p.38 Two Ponies (28) by Jonathan Franzen
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