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

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suddenly you inherit a chain of supermarkets

Imagine for a moment, if you will, that you grow flowers for a living, and suddenly you inherit a chain of supermarkets. You have no interest in supermarkets and know nothing about them. You’d be quite content to collect the considerable profits every so often and spend them as you see fit, whilst …

—p.215 The Luminous Novel by Mario Levrero
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this bird-based epiphany was symbolic

The topic of the dead pigeon as a symbol still needs to be addressed. I should explain to the reader, or remind them if they already know, that a few years ago I wrote a text called Diary of a Swine. I wrote it in Buenos Aires. My initial impulse had been to continue the ‘luminous novel’ (take note…

—p.188 by Mario Levrero
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this bird-based epiphany was symbolic

The topic of the dead pigeon as a symbol still needs to be addressed. I should explain to the reader, or remind them if they already know, that a few years ago I wrote a text called Diary of a Swine. I wrote it in Buenos Aires. My initial impulse had been to continue the ‘luminous novel’ (take note…

—p.188 by Mario Levrero
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I wanted someone to set me limits

I’m in my pyjamas, but just as I was getting into bed, I suddenly remembered the source of all the current changes in my life, the ones I’m trying to bring about and stick to. This diary has helped me to reflect and remember; until now I’ve never had a clear sense of the events leading up to the cu…

—p.178 by Mario Levrero
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the famous Uruguayan software industry

[...] I thought it might be because I’d personalised my Windows colour scheme; perhaps they’d put the results in white text on a white background and that was why nothing showed up. But there’s no way to change the colours in the program; you can’t even highlight the text with the mouse so it appea…

—p.178 by Mario Levrero