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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sine qua non

language uses resemble each other in a wide variety of ways but with no central sine qua non feature

—p.28 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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mediated

those techniques are actually more for reminding the reader that what he or she is reading is mediated

on footnotes

—p.17 Introduction: Consider David Foster Wallace (12) by Greg Carlisle
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bulwark

the theoretical bulwark for a literature that was simultaneously challenging and therapeutic

quoting Jon Baskin in The Point

—p.16 Introduction: Consider David Foster Wallace (12) missing author
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surfeit

buried under a surfeit of "post-" prefixes

—p.10 Editor's Preface (9) by David Hering
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