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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prolix

As a body of work, hers feels accidental, prolix, and messy: not the work of a concrete block, but of a woman.

—p.160 Simone (135) by Joanna Biggs
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imprecate

When she has finished her imprecation, Simaetha bids her acolyte to scatter herbs on Delphis’s threshold

—p.56 The Prehistory of Love (53) by Octavio Paz
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empyrean

The general belief was that some day the soul would return to the empyrean, and the body to formless matter.

—p.17 The Kingdoms of Pan (1) by Octavio Paz
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peregrinations

eternal heat accompany humankind in all its peregrinations and adventures

—p.11 The Kingdoms of Pan (1) by Octavio Paz
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caesura

In fact, there is a caesura between one piece and the next, but it can only be recognized, or heard, by those who know to listen for it.

—p.131 Speech and Silence (115) by Jenny Erpenbeck
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