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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belled interview

the one-sided conversations, which we might call the belled interview

I think he coins this phrase here

—p.ix Introduction (ix) by Stephen J. Burn
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logotherapy

Frankl's therapeutic school, logotherapy, explores the idea that selves in an extreme state of personal degradation or loss are often better able to comprehend what is really meaningful. But this, of course, does not mean you create a second holocaust in order to generate meaning.

—p.294 Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: The Difficult Gifts of David Foster Wallace (255) by Zadie Smith
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couvade

In the couvade, a man feels his wife's pregnancy: a porous border.

referring to a scene in Brief Interviews, when the interviewee asks if the interviewer knows the term

—p.294 Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: The Difficult Gifts of David Foster Wallace (255) by Zadie Smith
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bombast

Definitely overeducated, supercilious, and full, initially, of bombastic opinions about the girl

—p.292 Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: The Difficult Gifts of David Foster Wallace (255) by Zadie Smith
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