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, 10 months ago

a meaningless bullshit response to meaningless bullshit archive/silicon-jest

[...] I remember not getting Camus's The Fall read in time, for instance, and having to totally bullshit my way through the Literature of Alienation midterm--in other words, I was cheating, at least by implication--but not feeling much about it one way or the other, that I can recall, except a so…

—p.188 The Pale King §22 (156) by David Foster Wallace
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which with depreciation is fatal archive/silicon-jest

[...] I'm 99 per cent sure that I took just one Intro Accounting class during all this time, and did all right in it until we hit depreciation schedules, as in the straight-line method vs. accelerated depreciation schedules, and the combination of difficulty and sheer boredom of the depreciation sc…

—p.157 §22 (156) by David Foster Wallace
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anybody got the time? archive/silicon-jest

'[...] given how fast the first forty-two years have shot by it's not going t be long before I too pass away, whoever imagined that there was a more truthful way to put it than "die," "pass away," the very sound of it makes me feel the way I feel at dusk on a wintry Sunday--'

'Anybody got the ti…

—p.145 §19 (132) by David Foster Wallace
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running in circles and flapping his arms

[...] Lane Dean, whose slacks have ridden up so far he'd have to go into a stall in a men's room to extract them, feels like running out into the fields in the heat and running in circles and flapping his arms.

—p.125 §16 (124) by David Foster Wallace
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