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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autarkic

The Bretton Woods conference marked the dawning of a new era for the global economy. [...] Trade flows increased after the years of autarky during the war, and a new age of globalisation began.

—p.32 Chapter One - The Golden Age of Capitalism (29) by Grace Blakeley
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legerdemain

the mental legerdemain necessary to portray our most precious internalities as external to us

—p.43 The Empire of Self-Deceit (38) missing author
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ekphrasis

some of my early poems were ekphrastic

—p.17 Back from the Afterlife (14) missing author
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integument

What Indiana portrays in place of this myth is a kind of pathological integument binding together nodes of “normalcy,” where the deficits and obsessions characteristic of the criminal appear in an acceptable guise

—p.90 Normal People (84) missing author
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sumptuary

badly designed American sportswear made by East Asian factory workers is the uniform of the urban poor, a surer class marker than anything mandated by Medieval sumptuary laws.

—p.56 The Prosperity Hoax (52) missing author
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