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

my fun scale
Lit

[...] Do I remember Puff the Magic Dragon, he wants to know. Do I? On my fun scale, it ranks with the Nuremberg Trials. [...]

—p.8 Lit Prologue: Open Letter to My Son (1) by Mary Karr
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publishing a book

[...] I've published one slim volume of verse and some essays, but so has every other semiliterate writer in Cambridge. It's like owning a herd of cattle in my home state of Texas, publishing a book is.

—p.8 Prologue: Open Letter to My Son (1) by Mary Karr
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Octet and Martha Nussbaum

X works for General Motors. All day long he performs a single repetitive task. The things he helps to make are not under his control. And yet he feels good. He is proud of the bustling capitalist economy; he may even be convinced that the capability to perform simple repetitive tasks is the only ca…

—p.216 Consider David Foster Wallace This is Water and the Ethics of Attention: Wallace, Murdoch, and Nussbaum (209) missing author
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the purpose of journalism

journalism can lead to a moment of real human connection between the reader and a world that they would not otherwise know

—p.193 Seething Static: Notes on Wallace and Journalism (187) by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
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there can be no maternal reassurance

[...] What's so terrifying about the narrator's nightmares of adult life, over and above the supernatural horrors of The Exorcist, consists in the grim fact that there can be no maternal reassurance that there exists "nothing like what you just dreamed in the real world" (106).

—p.180 Representations of Trauma in David Foster Wallace's Oblivion (172) missing author