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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lacuna

Jonathan Franzen wrote a review for the New York Times that ignored any discussion of race, a stupefying lacuna; Whitehead says that Franzen in fact later apologized for it

—p.174 Underground Man (163) by Jesse McCarthy
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pallid

the pallid lighting of underground transfer halls

—p.102 Back in the Day (98) by Jesse McCarthy
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dross

Even within poems packed with dross, he’ll find his way to something, to a moment you won’t forget.

—p.67 Black Dada Nihilismus (64) by Jesse McCarthy
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laconic

George Herriman was a New Orleans Creole, and the comedy has a laconic Southern charm to its arrangement

—p.66 Black Dada Nihilismus (64) by Jesse McCarthy
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chirography

Walker figured out how to make the cutout congeal into chirography, a signature effect that seizes us, and to which we cannot be indifferent.

—p.45 Venus and the Angel of History (34) by Jesse McCarthy
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