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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contrapuntal

The manoir had once been the writer’s home, and she found herself in some modest contrapuntal dance with him.

—p.63 by Michael Ondaatje
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crenellation

Approaching your building on West Twelfth Street, you observe the architect’s dim concept of European fortresses: a crenelated tower atop the building conceals the water tank

—p.36 by Jay McInerney
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stanchion

You cross under the rusting stanchions of the old elevated highway and walk out to the pier. The easterly light skims across the broad expanse of the Hudson.

—p.10 by Jay McInerney
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factotum

The Americans who weren’t just abstract leaseholders were mercenaries and AWOL factotums left over from the war.

—p.33 by Rachel Kushner
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syncline

There was that joke about what a man needs to survive: food, shelter, papaya and strange papaya. In a world where papaya isn’t a fruit but the damp, warm syncline between a woman’s thighs.

—p.30 by Rachel Kushner
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