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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roman à clef

Wallace's suicide has made for more personalized tributes and roman à clefs than studies of influence usually account for

—p.29 Introduction: A Living Transaction (1) by Jeffrey Severs
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numismatics

in addition to finding new dimensions in his representation of numismatics

—p.28 Introduction: A Living Transaction (1) by Jeffrey Severs
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dialectic

I describe in chapter 4 the dialectic of computerized complexity and balance-scale simplicity that underlies the moral vision of Brief Interviews.

—p.28 Introduction: A Living Transaction (1) by Jeffrey Severs
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Horatio Alger

if moral values are, like money, inherited, then so, too, may the morally impoverished of his 1980s generation, new versions of Horatio Alger, go get jobs

—p.23 Introduction: A Living Transaction (1) by Jeffrey Severs
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neoliberalism

The denigration of work, the celebration of efficiency, and the worship of the market are all hallmarks of the ideology that has dominated the United States since the late 1970s, neoliberalism

includes a definition of neoliberalism by Alissa G. Karl

—p.23 Introduction: A Living Transaction (1) by Jeffrey Severs
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