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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5 years, 6 months ago

tries to render invisible things visible topic/literary-theory

[...] The novel puts people in motion and, in that, tries to render invisible things visible and deal with questions that don’t have easy answers. I think fiction is a space in which you can use naïveté to bump up against ambiguities.

—p.286 Bomb: The Author Interviews Rachel Kushner and Hari Kunzru (281) by BOMB Magazine
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Parnassus

There is no Parnassus to me higher than this

thought it meant goal or something

—p.276 Wayne Koestenbaum and Kenneth Goldsmith (263) by BOMB Magazine
strange
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this world is the only reality available to us

At this moment I feel obliged to acknowledge a part of life that’s not subject to fantasies or projections and doesn’t care about how anyone sees it. I’m reading from a book of Simone Weil’s letters, Waiting for God. It was introduced by Leslie Fiedler, and he says something that I like very much:

—p.215 Mary Gaitskill and Matthew Sharpe (207) by Mary Gaitskill
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salubrious

a way to constitute themselves more salubriously

Matthew Sharpe

—p.213 Mary Gaitskill and Matthew Sharpe (207) by BOMB Magazine
uncertain