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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[...] writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin. Writing is that neutral, composite, oblique space where our subject slips away, the negative where all identity is lost, starting with the very identity of the body writing.

on a passage from Balzac's Sarrasine, where the narrative voice states something and it's unclear from whose POV the statement is being rendered

—p.142 by Roland Barthes 7 years, 5 months ago

[...] writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin. Writing is that neutral, composite, oblique space where our subject slips away, the negative where all identity is lost, starting with the very identity of the body writing.

on a passage from Balzac's Sarrasine, where the narrative voice states something and it's unclear from whose POV the statement is being rendered

—p.142 by Roland Barthes 7 years, 5 months ago