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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aegis
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the first poems of mine that ever saw print were sent out under Etheridge's aegis, in envelopes he paid postage on

—p.53 Escape from the Tropic of Squalor (13) by Mary Karr
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caul

My granny back in Tennessee was born with the web of a caul over her head like a wedding veil

quoting the terrifying guy who "rescues" her in his car

—p.21 Escape from the Tropic of Squalor (13) by Mary Karr
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keloid

no keloid scars from boiling water

—p.14 Escape from the Tropic of Squalor (13) by Mary Karr
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slipshod

doing so felt like the first true and good act I'd managed in my whole slipshod life

about feeding her son

—p.9 Prologue: Open Letter to My Son (1) by Mary Karr
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reifying

a reified world of autonomous simulacra

—p.206 Don't Compare, Identify: David Foster Wallace on John McCain (199) missing author
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