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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7 years, 6 months ago

some ability to transcend the goal topic/ambition

'But perhaps one does attain this, to win. Imagine you. You become just what you have given your life to be. Not merely very good but the best. The good philosophy of here and Schtitt — I believe this philosophy of Enfield is more Canadian than American, so you may see I have prejudice — is that yo…

—p.680 Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
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7 years, 6 months ago

one Subject is never enough project/rink-story

(This is why, maybe, one Subject is never enough, why hand after hand must descend to pull him back from the endless fall. For were there for him just one, now, special and only, the One would be not he or she but what was between them, the obliterating trinity of You and I into We. Orin felt that …

—p.566 by David Foster Wallace
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7 years, 6 months ago

there's serious pain in being sober

Something they seem to omit to mention in Boston AA when you're new and out of your skull with desperation and ready to eliminate your map and they tell you how it'll all get better and better as you abstain and recover: they somehow omit to mention that the way it gets better and you get better is…

—p.445 by David Foster Wallace
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7 years, 6 months ago

mastering Third World exchange rates

[...] Reat is tall, densely freckled, a good kid, one of Incandenza's fair-haired boys, not too bright, with the Satellite Tour so clearly in his future that at only fifteen he's already starting cholera shots and mastering Third World exchange rates. [...]

—p.409 by David Foster Wallace
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7 years, 6 months ago

export it, one might venture to sally

TlNE: Having been elected and conferred with a mandate on the clear and public antiwaste platform of the C.U.S.P., the president is inexorably driven to see the only viable option being to give it away.

SEC. STATE: Give it away?

TINE: Expressly.

[...]

TlNE: We're going to give away the …

—p.402 by David Foster Wallace