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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worker leverage in the age of computerization

It’s also unclear whether computerization has actually reduced manufacturing workers to “gauge readers.” Even if these claims were true, computerization puts enormous power in the hands of the workers who set up and maintain these new machines. Deskilled workers could halt production by staying at …

—p.11 Rank and File The Forgotten Militants (9) missing author
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the physical comes to dominate us

Because we feel ourselves first and foremost as physical beings, the physical comes to dominate us: Beloved uncles die, parents are displaced, cousins go to war, children suffer misfortune, love becomes a trap. The deeper in you go, the more it hurts to get out. Disaster (sickness, death, loss) is …

—p.243 The Brain-Dead Megaphone: Essays Buddha Boy (211) by George Saunders
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in a country as violent and stupid as ours

[...] Huck Finn is a great book because it tells the truth about the human condition in a way that delights us. It is a great work of our national literature because, more than any book before or since, it locates itself squarely on our National Dilemma, which is: How can anyone be truly free in …

—p.210 The United States of Huck: Introduction to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (187) by George Saunders
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racism in Huckleberry Finn

The questions about race in Huck Finn tend to center around the presence in the book of the word "nigger", but my guess is that, if the book were free of the types of missteps described above, and if the ending weren't such a fiasco, that word might not be such a problem. That is, if our wishful …

—p.206 The United States of Huck: Introduction to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (187) by George Saunders
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the United States of Tom or the United States of Huck

[...] Huck and Tom represent two viable models of the American Character. They exist side by side in every American and every American action. America is, and always has been, undecided about whether it will be the United States of Tom or the United States of Huck. The United States of Tom looks at…

—p.203 The United States of Huck: Introduction to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (187) by George Saunders