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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epicede

“Tell us what an epicede is,” said Belano without turning around. “It’s an elegy, recited in the presence of the dead,” I said. “Not to be confused with the threnody. The epicede took the form of a choral dialogue. The meter used was the dactylo-epitrite, and later elegiac verse.”

—p.600 The Sonora Desert (1976) (589) by Roberto Bolaño
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catachresis

“What is a catachresis?” I said. [...] “It’s a metaphor that’s become part of common everyday speech and is no longer perceived as a metaphor. For example: needle’s eye, bottleneck. And an Archilochian?”

—p.595 The Sonora Desert (1976) (589) by Roberto Bolaño
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polysemous

as I decoded that very polysemous (if I may) sentence

—p.210 The Savage Detectives (1976-1996) (141) by Roberto Bolaño
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charnel

the charnel house of Santa Teresa is linked to the corruption and decadence of twentieth century European history and culture.

—p.xxii Introduction (ix) by Roberto Bolaño
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bibulous

the bibulous patrons of backroom poker games

ahhh nice

—p.78 The Lover (1) by Marguerite Duras
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