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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Jorge Luis Borges

Exhaustive critical commentary quickly tends towards annotation, which in turn tends ultimately towards a kind of Borgesian replicatin of the text in itself.

—p.62 Consider Berkeley & Co.: Reading "Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way" (62) by Philip Coleman
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eschatology

The eschatological theme of the game bleeds into the reality, just as the boundaries of the map are blurred

on Eschaton

—p.46 A Blasted Region: David Foster Wallace's Man-made Landscapes (37) by Graham Foster
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eclogue

obsolescent conventions of the eclogue tradition

Laurence Buell, defining the term "pastoral"

—p.41 A Blasted Region: David Foster Wallace's Man-made Landscapes (37) missing author
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equipoise

Lenore Beadsman's erratic progress towards equipoise and self-reliance

—p.33 The Book, the Broom, and the Ladder: Philosophical Groundings in the Work of David Foster Wallace (24) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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skeletal narrative

what I call Walace's "skeletal narrative," which involves the undermining and eventual collapse of a surface narrative to reveal the "true" or "real" story, by means of jarring elements planted within the narrative voice itself

—p.30 The Book, the Broom, and the Ladder: Philosophical Groundings in the Work of David Foster Wallace (24) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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