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

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

I have defeated summer

HA HA HA!

I have defeated summer! The air conditioning is installed. To celebrate, I had half a glass of wine. I’m drunk.

—p.289 The Luminous Novel by Mario Levrero
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I was violently attracted to her nonetheless

[...] The girl would have been, I don’t know, I can never tell how old people are, but I think she would have been between fourteen and sixteen years old. And yet she behaved as if she were younger, with that stiffness, that dependence on the old lady still rooting around in her handbag. The girl h…

—p.285 by Mario Levrero
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7 months, 3 weeks ago

I feel more like a Beckett character by the day

I lit the end of a candle, left over from a previous power cut, and stuck it in a clean ashtray. I carried the lit candle to the bathroom, resigned to facing the second phase of my martyrdom – damn those antidepressants – while trying to shake from my mind the uncomfortable notion that I was fallin…

—p.280 by Mario Levrero
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I’m exercising my right to culture

When I ‘steal’ a program I’m exercising my right to culture, which isn’t anyone’s private property. The programs I ‘steal’ don’t earn me any money; on the contrary, they make me waste time. I don’t derive any material benefit from them. Culture, the product of intelligence and sensibility, is somet…

—p.265 by Mario Levrero
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just as one of my novels is a kind of information

I think I’m not strictly a thief; I don’t have the right mindset for it. So why do I steal programs?

In response to that, I’d say that I don’t steal programs, but rather the right to use them. The program isn’t a physical thing; it’s information, a kind of information, just as one of my novels i…

—p.264 by Mario Levrero