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, 4 months ago

our perfectly reasonable system of directives

If you want the privilege of competing in a team sport, Scout, show us that you can live within our perfectly reasonable system of directives designed to benefit you.

—p.14 Tenth of December Victory Lap (3) by George Saunders
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the end of myths is to immobilize the world

For the very end of myths is to immobilize the world: they must suggest and mimic a universal order which has fixated once and for all the hierarchy of possessions. Thus, every day and everywhere, man is stopped by myths, referred by them to this motionless prototype which lives in his place, stifl…

—p.270 Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation Myth Today (215) by Roland Barthes
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a man unable to imagine the Other

The petit bourgeois is a man unable to imagine the Other. [...] This is because the Other is a scandal who threatens the petit bourgeois's essence.

—p.265 Myth Today (215) by Roland Barthes
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metalanguage is a luxury

This imperfection, if that is the word for it, comes from the nature of the "Left": whatever the imprecision of the term, the Left always defines itself in relation to the oppressed, whether proletarian or colonized. Now the speech of the oppressed can only be poor, monotonous, immediate: his desti…

—p.261 Myth Today (215) by Roland Barthes
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a world wide open and wallowing in the evident

[...] If I state the fact of French imperiality without explaining it, I am very near to finding that it is natural and goes without saying: I am reassured. In passing from history to nature, myth acts economically: it abolishes the complexity of human acts, it gives them the simplicity of esse…

—p.256 Myth Today (215) by Roland Barthes