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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oneiric

the figurative elements of this power, the oneiric themes composing it

on the myth of the USSR

—p.38 Martians (38) by Roland Barthes
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alterity

Western mythology attributes to the Communist world the very alterity of a planet: the USSR is a world intermediate between Earth and Mars

—p.38 Martians (38) by Roland Barthes
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apsos

securing their rarity like that of Lhasa apsos on Earth

—p.27 The "Blue Blood" Cruise (26) by Roland Barthes
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laicize

this mythic character of our kings is nowaday laicized

—p.27 The "Blue Blood" Cruise (26) by Roland Barthes
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antiphrasis

All such things inform us, by antiphrasis, about a certain ideal nature of everyday life

on the wondrous way in which the press recounts the quotidian behaviour of the royals on the cruise

—p.27 The "Blue Blood" Cruise (26) by Roland Barthes
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