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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two paths seem to be open

Will the literature of the fantastic be possible in the twenty-first century, with the growing inflation of prefabricated images? Two paths seem to be open from now on. (1) We could recycle used images in a new context that changes their meaning. Postmodernism may be seen as the tendency to make ir…

—p.95 Six Memos for the Next Millennium Visibility (81) by Italo Calvino
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two different types of knowledge

The fact is, my writing has always found itself facing two divergent paths that correspond to two different types of knowledge. One path goes into the mental space of bodiless rationality, where one may trace lines that converge, projections, abstract forms, vectors of force. The other path goes th…

—p.74 Exactitude (55) by Italo Calvino
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enough to render writing impossible

[...] Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something else entirely or, rather, not anything precise but everything that does not fit in with what I ought to write—the relationship between a given argument and all its possible var…

—p.68 Exactitude (55) by Italo Calvino
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language becomes what it really ought to be

Why do I feel the need to defend values that many people might take to be perfectly obvious? I think that my first impulse arises from a hypersensitivity or allergy. It seems to me that language is always used in a random, approximate, careless manner, and this distresses me unbearably. Please don'…

—p.56 Exactitude (55) by Italo Calvino
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peroration

If we consider that this peroration in favor of truly universal fraternité was written nearly one hundred and fifty years before the French revolution

—p.22 Lightness (3) by Italo Calvino
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