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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5 years, 11 months ago

I am not lost until I lose my memory topic/having-a-body

Who I am is certainly part of how I look and vice versa. I want to know where I begin and end, what size I am, and what suits me. People who say the body is unimportant floor me. How can they believe that? I don't want to be a disembodied brain floating in a glass jar in a sci-fi movie, and I don't…

—p.168 The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination Discussions and Opinions (127) by Ursula K. Le Guin
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5 years, 11 months ago

who is that old lady? topic/growing-older

But it gets harder and harder to enjoy facing the mirror. Who is that old lady? Where is her waist? I got resigned, sort of, to losing my dark hair and getting all this limp grey stuff instead, but now am I going to lose even that and end up all pink scalp? [...]

—p.166 Discussions and Opinions (127) by Ursula K. Le Guin
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5 years, 11 months ago

the broken world the conquistadors leave behind

Capitalism, which ceases to exist if it is not expanding its empire, establishes an ever-moving frontier, and its yang conquistadors forever pursue El Dorado. You cannot be too rich, they cry. My realistic fictions are mostly about people on the yin side of capitalism: housewives, waitresses, libra…

—p.30 Personal Matters (3) by Ursula K. Le Guin
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5 years, 11 months ago

an uncertain light inspo/setting

And now the evening sun's slanting rays broke forth from behind the rims of the great cloud and illuminated the hills and mountains as far as the eye could see, while the river and the region beneath the cloud lay in an uncertain light.

—p.29 The Complete Short Stories Description of a Struggle (9) by Franz Kafka
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6 years ago

all that technical expertise, and for what archive/abolish-silicon-valley

p,,,[ Audaciously taking its name from the shops it set out to displace and superfluous if not sinister in the actual service it purported to offer - a sort of glorified vending machine with facial recognition software - Bodega crystalllized the venality of the tech economy. All that technical expe…

—p.66 Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism Disruption (65) by John Patrick Leary