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).

a subjugated population group that formed the main population of Laconia and Messenia, the territory controlled by Sparta (in Ancient Greece)

47

The helots against the elites.

—p.47 by Jean Baudrillard
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The helots against the elites.

—p.47 by Jean Baudrillard
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(verb) to invoke evil on; curse / (verb) to utter curses

49

imprecation; media brainwashing

—p.49 by Jean Baudrillard
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imprecation; media brainwashing

—p.49 by Jean Baudrillard
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(noun) an intervening space

50

There is scarcely any living memory of boredom. This is why it can superimpose itself on all kinds of activities, even exciting ones, since it lives in the interstices.

—p.50 by Jean Baudrillard
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There is scarcely any living memory of boredom. This is why it can superimpose itself on all kinds of activities, even exciting ones, since it lives in the interstices.

—p.50 by Jean Baudrillard
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(adj) having or encouraging an excessive interest in sexual matters

55

revealing a prurient urge to search people out

about a detective show lol

—p.55 by Jean Baudrillard
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revealing a prurient urge to search people out

about a detective show lol

—p.55 by Jean Baudrillard
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(noun) a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form; e.g. ‘Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.’.

58

the word 'inexorable' is itself inexorable [...] by the rainbow sweep of vowels which, in its cadence, describes an implacable curve--each syllable peels off irrevocably, culminating in the chiasmus of the 'X'

omg

—p.58 by Jean Baudrillard
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the word 'inexorable' is itself inexorable [...] by the rainbow sweep of vowels which, in its cadence, describes an implacable curve--each syllable peels off irrevocably, culminating in the chiasmus of the 'X'

omg

—p.58 by Jean Baudrillard
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(adjective) producing, relating to, or marked by intentional distortion (as by unequal magnification along perpendicular axes) of an image

58

anamorphosis and anagram of all the fragments

—p.58 by Jean Baudrillard
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anamorphosis and anagram of all the fragments

—p.58 by Jean Baudrillard
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(adj, theology) (of knowledge of God) obtained through negating concepts that might be applied to him

63

Apophatic is the term applied to a theology which seeks knowledge of God through what he is not rather than through what he is. A kind of negative theology.

(he says next) can also apply the concept to history, reading

—p.63 by Jean Baudrillard
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Apophatic is the term applied to a theology which seeks knowledge of God through what he is not rather than through what he is. A kind of negative theology.

(he says next) can also apply the concept to history, reading

—p.63 by Jean Baudrillard
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(adjective) of or relating to the earth; terrestrial / (adjective) being or relating to a usually natural electric current flowing near the earth's surface

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in the same telluric life

—p.70 by Jean Baudrillard
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in the same telluric life

—p.70 by Jean Baudrillard
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poetic misreading or misprision

73

the clinamen of the will

—p.73 by Jean Baudrillard
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the clinamen of the will

—p.73 by Jean Baudrillard
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(noun) when a seed vessel or a wound gapes or bursts open

86

if the difference is weak, that is because the dehiscence is nil

I think this fragment is deliberately meant to be nonsense but who knows

—p.86 by Jean Baudrillard
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if the difference is weak, that is because the dehiscence is nil

I think this fragment is deliberately meant to be nonsense but who knows

—p.86 by Jean Baudrillard
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