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, 7 months ago

Sternberg's eye

What's contemporarily tragic about Sternberg is that he has a fatal physical flaw. One of his eyes is turned completely around in his head. From the front it looks like a boiled egg. It won't come back around straight. It's like an injury. It's incredibly bad for his ambitions as a commercial a…

—p.250 Girl with Curious Hair Westward the course of empire takes its way (231) by David Foster Wallace
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life goes on archive/silicon-jest

Life goes on. You're empty, sad, probably the least appreciated creative virtuoso in the industry; well and but life just goes on, emptily, sadly, with always direction but never center. The hubless wheels spins ever faster, no? Yes. Admen approach challenges thus: concede what's hopelessly true,…

—p.240 Westward the course of empire takes its way (231) by David Foster Wallace
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7 years, 7 months ago

yes and but

By now Mark and D.L. were being seen together. Why? [...]

Yes and but he, Mark: why?

—p.237 Westward the course of empire takes its way (231) by David Foster Wallace
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cinnamon girl archive/silicon-jest

Cinnamon girl. Full-lipped, candy-skinned, brandy-haired South American-type girl. A type: a girl the color of dirty light, eyes a well-boiled white and hair like liquor, scintillant and smoky; precisely pointed breasts that shimmy when her chest caves in, when her chest caves in and hand flutters …

—p.213 Say never (203) by David Foster Wallace
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je venais archive/silicon-jest

'The harnessed bundles of insulated wires all seem well connected to their burners' transformers, so I have to disconnect each bundle from its outflow jack on the distributor circuit and look at the circuit itself. The circuit is just too old and grimy and crude and pathetic to be certain about, bu…

—p.169 Here and there (149) by David Foster Wallace