Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

the image of the suffering Redeemer for/pq

[...] Q was a friend of mine who was also very well furnished in the breast department (the other woman, O, perhaps wins the prize – but I have no valid excuse to involve her breasts in this novel, at least not for the time being. Which is a shame, because they deserve a novel all to themselves). A…

—p.500 The Luminous Novel by Mario Levrero
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salubrious

I sometimes manage to think the opposite: that these ants and I are the salubrious cells of our societies.

—p.480 by Mario Levrero
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they got drunk on sugar

I was pleased to see such a high incidence of individualism; although limited, that capacity for transgression made me feel hopeful about the future of ants, a domain of Nature whose societal model had seemed as perfect, absolute and mechanical as that of bees; a model in which the individual count…

—p.479 by Mario Levrero
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this reverie of self-absorption project/nemesis why/write

I’m sorry, literature, you who also have something of a guileless and pitying prostitute about you, I’ve abandoned you too in this reverie of self-absorption, reminiscing behind your back. I’m losing you, too, but it had to be done. I hope you understand: I’m trying to put my own jigsaw together, c…

—p.471 by Mario Levrero
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this reverie of self-absorption project/nemesis why/write

I’m sorry, literature, you who also have something of a guileless and pitying prostitute about you, I’ve abandoned you too in this reverie of self-absorption, reminiscing behind your back. I’m losing you, too, but it had to be done. I hope you understand: I’m trying to put my own jigsaw together, c…

—p.471 by Mario Levrero