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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A recurrent situationist theme: the idea of 'the vacation' as a sort of loop of alienation and domination, a symbol of the false promises of modern life, a notion that as CLUB MED--A CHEAP HOLIDAY IN OTHER PEOPLE'S MISERY would become graffiti in Paris in May 1968, and then, it seemed, turned into 'Holidays in the Sun' (21).

from Lipstick Traces. Holidays in the Sun is a Sex Pistols song (the first line is the subject)

—p.93 David Foster Wallace and Music: The Grunge Writer and the Hitherto Criminally Overlooked Importance of Signifying Rappers (89) by Greil Marcus 6 years, 5 months ago

A recurrent situationist theme: the idea of 'the vacation' as a sort of loop of alienation and domination, a symbol of the false promises of modern life, a notion that as CLUB MED--A CHEAP HOLIDAY IN OTHER PEOPLE'S MISERY would become graffiti in Paris in May 1968, and then, it seemed, turned into 'Holidays in the Sun' (21).

from Lipstick Traces. Holidays in the Sun is a Sex Pistols song (the first line is the subject)

—p.93 David Foster Wallace and Music: The Grunge Writer and the Hitherto Criminally Overlooked Importance of Signifying Rappers (89) by Greil Marcus 6 years, 5 months ago

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