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).

using or containing too many words; tediously lengthy

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prolixity
prolix



The deadlocked prolixity of Rousseau's text is also a lesson

—p.36 Jacques Derrida: language against itself (18) by Christopher Norris
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6 years, 6 months ago


Please observe how chatty the Bible is, how prolix the Pentateuch is, in describing the outcome of Genesis—and how laconic in giving the recipe for it!

—p.5 Introduction (1) by Stanisław Lem
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4 months, 1 week ago


the careful prolixity of autodidacts

—p.116 April: The Prodigal (107) by China Miéville
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6 years, 6 months ago


Husserl is prolix, prolific, and infamously difficult to read

on Edmund Husserl, whose works Kurt Godel spent much time studying

—p.55 Metaphysics in the Royal Society 1715-2010 (38) by Neal Stephenson
notable
6 years, 9 months ago

Sonora Review DFW Tribute
by multiple authors

Sonora Review DFW Tribute
by multiple authors

Sonora Review DFW Tribute
by multiple authors


Wallace's later, more prolix argument about pop culture's successful co-opting of postmodern self-reflexivity and irony

—p.31 Heading Westward (28) by Marshall Boswell
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6 years, 7 months ago