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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dizzying editorial heights

[...] I made obscene amounts of money for the House, rose to such dizzying editorial heights that my salary became almost enough to live on. [...]

—p.64 The Broom of the System 5 (57) by David Foster Wallace
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her mechanical chair on its track

[...] I recall that at this point her mechanical chair on its track was caused to move toward the door of the inner office of Dr. Jay--whose fondness for useless gadgets would, I'm convinced, be of significant interest to his colleagues--and we called goodbye. [...]

—p.61 5 (57) by David Foster Wallace
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cathexis

Lenore's own private well of emotional cathex

not entirely sure of the meaning here

—p.60 5 (57) by David Foster Wallace
uncertain
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ontology

achieving full ontological status only in subsequent union

on kissing Lenore

—p.59 5 (57) by David Foster Wallace
strange
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fruit of my loins

[...] Now that it's become undeniably apparent even to me that I have a son who lends to the expression "fruit of my loins" whole new vistas of meaning [...]

—p.58 5 (57) by David Foster Wallace