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

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people say don’t be a downer

He says: In Australia there’s this compulsory friendliness? You try to talk about metaphysics and people say Don’t be a downer. You try to talk about Dostoevsky and they say Look, the sun is shining. We can go to the beach. What’s the matter with you? They lie there sunbathing like these reptile cr…

—p.339 Your Name Here by Helen DeWitt
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and the nose was missing

He says: Think I may have lent this one to a friend. I was too tired and emotional to know what I was doing. I’m trying to channel Gogol through a similar haircut, woke up the next morning and it was Lermontov and not covered by the insurance and the nose was missing, AAAAAAARGH (drinks beer which …

—p.338 by Helen DeWitt
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strolling up and down the Nevsky Prospect

So I must have sat inside. He said he would like to go outside. We sat at a table in the open air. There is a slab of slightly wavy chestnut brown hair falling from a side part to the jaw, and chestnut brown eyes, and a curling red mouth, it is my idea anyway of a 19th-century Russian. I imagine hi…

—p.337 by Helen DeWitt
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this is what the pieces of paper buy

It goes on being very quiet. This is what the pieces of paper buy.

This was the thought: that it would not be necessary to make phone calls for a very long time.

I stacked up the notes again. There was bewilderment and joy. Dust floated in a beam of light. I had tried so many sentences on the…

—p.318 by Helen DeWitt
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the slack-jawed hermaphroditic spawn of Bretton Woods

He says: We have balboas. We have bahts. We have drachmas. The slack-jawed hermaphroditic spawn of Bretton Woods.

—p.314 by Helen DeWitt