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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David Foster Wallace is very Victorian

[...] With a scalpel Eliot dissects degrees of human velleity, finding the conscious ction hidden within the impulse hiden within the desire hidden within the will tucked away deep inside the decision that we have obfuscated even from ourselves. (She is very modern in this; she articulates the obse…

—p.33 Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays Middlemarch and Everybody (29) by Zadie Smith
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the stumbling errors of human beings project/kill-your-heroes

The young Eliot could exult only in the perfect truths we glean from certain books in our libraries; the mature Eliot had learned to have sympathy for the stumbling errors of human beings. [...]

—p.32 Middlemarch and Everybody (29) by Zadie Smith
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liking Keats makes you cultured

[...] It's a cliché to think liking Keats makes you cultured (Larkin and Amis defaced their college copy of The Eves of St. Agnes) [...]

—p.24 E. M. Forster, Middle Manager (14) by Zadie Smith
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Wordsworth country

[...] not having read Wordsworth, yet grasps the soul of that poet as he listens to Forster recount a visit to the Lake District, Wordsworth country: "Grey sheets of rain trailed in front of the mountains, waterfalls slid down them and shone in the sun, and the sky was always sending shafts of ligh…

—p.18 E. M. Forster, Middle Manager (14) by Zadie Smith