Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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this SHRDLU in the cosmic ad copy archive/silicon-jest

[...] He represents the Product. Is Ronald McDonald. Professionally. This son, this sty on the cosmic eyelid, this SHRDLU in the cosmic ad copy, represents the world's community restaurant.

—p.246 Girl with Curious Hair Westward the course of empire takes its way (231) by David Foster Wallace
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returned sometime later with a gun archive/silicon-jest project/panopticon

Under the sign erected every May above the outer highway reading IT'S SPRING, THINK FARM SAFETY and through the north ingress with its own defaced name and signs addressed to soliciting and speed and universal glyph for children at play [...] and then hard left along the length of a speed bump into…

—p.55 The Pale King §8 (55) by David Foster Wallace
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loved unconditionally by God archive/silicon-jest

[...] It's not unlike the religious confidence that one is 'loved unconditionally' by God--as the God in question is defined as something that loves this way automatically and universally, it doesn't seem to really have anything to do with you, so it's hard to see why religious people claim to feel…

—p.211 §22 (156) by David Foster Wallace
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every love story is a ghost story archive/silicon-jest

[...] Jay Landauer feels absently at his face. Every love story is a ghost story. Ryne Hobtratschk turns a page. [...]

—p.314 §25 (312) by David Foster Wallace
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the tyrant and the fake friend

[...] It's interesting that the two false administrative styles--the tyrant and the fake friend--are also the two main stereotypes that books and television shows and comic stripes present administrators as. One suspects, in fact, that the mental picture the insecure administrator erects inside him…

—p.435 §43 (433) by David Foster Wallace