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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apparatchikism

[...] The privileges available in the Republic had been paltry, a telephone, a flat with some air and light, the all-important permission to travel, but perhaps no paltrier than having x number of followers on Twitter, a much-liked Facebook profile, and the occasional four-minute spot on CNBC. Th…

—p.448 Purity The Killer (445) by Jonathan Franzen
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revolutions

In his experience, few things were more alike than one revolution to another. Then agan, he'd experienced only the kind that loudly called itself a revolution. The mark of a legitimate revolution--the scientific, for example--was that it didn't brag about its revolutionariness but simply occurred. …

—p.448 The Killer (445) by Jonathan Franzen
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nugatory

the trustee's responsibilities are nugatory

—p.442 le1o9n8a0rd (315) by Jonathan Franzen
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inurement

I was still in a penumbra of inurement to death

—p.426 le1o9n8a0rd (315) by Jonathan Franzen
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