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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misprision

a sustained error that practically compels misprision

—p.79 The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress (73) by David Foster Wallace
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qualia

the piquant qualia of a lived, albeit bizarrely lived, experience

—p.77 The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress (73) by David Foster Wallace
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roman à clef

These novels carve out for themselves an interstice between flat-out fiction and a sort of weird cerebral roman à clef.

—p.74 The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress (73) by David Foster Wallace
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apposite

There's a marvelously apposite Heidegger quotation here, but I'll spare you.

love this quote. referring to our literary innocence being taken away without anything substantial to replace it

—p.66 Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young (37) by David Foster Wallace
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