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

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hinterland

Anyone who’s seen photographs of Harlow’s monkeys clinging to wire models or huddled in isolation chambers will know that these are deeply disturbing experiments, carried out in an uneasy hinterland between the scientifically valid and the ethically abhorrent

—p.148 by Olivia Laing
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nonpareil

they have established Darger as an outsider artist nonpareil

—p.140 by Olivia Laing
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scopophilic

I don’t want to moralise about desire, be it scopophilia or any other kind.

—p.124 by Olivia Laing
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laconic

this laconic, light-footed and remarkably funny book

—p.62 by Olivia Laing
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encaustic

Jasper Johns had produced his first encaustic, messy, painterly American flag in 1954

—p.58 by Olivia Laing
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