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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quiddity

Yet the quiddity of Morrison’s writing ultimately is just that.

—p.30 The Origin of Others (22) by Jesse McCarthy
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apothegm

Toni Morrison’s apothegm that “the function of freedom is to free someone else”?

—p.20 The Master’s Tools (3) by Jesse McCarthy
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interpellation

The calling of Matthew is also known as his “vocation,” a word that reminds us here of the original etymological significance of a sacred interpellation, literally a calling from the divine.

—p.18 The Master’s Tools (3) by Jesse McCarthy
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chiasmus

Houston Baker Jr. came up with a pithy chiastic phrase to describe how black artworks and writings negotiated this tension: “the mastery of form and the deformation of mastery.”

—p.8 The Master’s Tools (3) by Jesse McCarthy
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remanded

We, who were once symbolically remanded to the racial Salon des Refusés and exhibited as animals at the colonial fairs, have stormed the palace of the Occident and crowned ourselves victorious in that gilded place.

—p.7 The Master’s Tools (3) by Jesse McCarthy
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