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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hegira

Young people and freedom seekers of all ages were streaming there from every corner of the country, seeking a permissive social space in which to explore their authenticity. The city capitalized on this hegira by selling bus tours through our Haight-­Ashbury neighborhood.

—p.107 San Francisco: For Sale by New Owners (101) missing author
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fulminate

Its leading citizens fulminated against its Wild West unruliness from the start;

—p.2 Introduction: Requiems for a Dream (1) by Gary Kamiya
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sententia

Besides, nothing could be more absurd than sententious displays of solidarity with one of the most virulent antiestablishment rags ever printed.

—p.273 The Time of the Assassins (262) by Jesse McCarthy
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bathos

which even in the late 1930s when Césaire was composing his poem in Paris carried a folksy and bathetic ring that is only dimly captured in the English

—p.218 On Afropessimism (198) by Jesse McCarthy
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apogee

the style of racial politics that wound-licking left-liberals fashioned in the late Clinton and Bush years, and that reached its apogee in both the persona and policy offers of Obama’s presidency

—p.213 On Afropessimism (198) by Jesse McCarthy
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