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).

(adjective) incapable of being expressed in words; indescribable / (adjective) unspeakable / (adjective) not to be uttered; taboo

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ineffable



A sensibility is almost, but not quite, ineffable.

—p.276 Notes on "Camp" (275) by Susan Sontag
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7 years, 2 months ago


There will need to be some kind of unfolding in order to contain it, and there will need to be layers. We are dealing with the ineffable here—we’re out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.

—p.104 by Anne Lamott
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5 years, 5 months ago


Like transcendental art, the criticism of transcendental art is a self-destructive process. It continually deals in contradictions—verbalizations of the ineffable

—p.8 Introduction (1) by Paul Schrader
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3 years, 2 months ago


And we leave the deeper thing in the work of art, which is also famously the most ineffable, its tone or mood, which is like a sensation of echo, which we often take away quite mutely and quietly

—p.356 On Teaching Poetry (341) by Robert Hass
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4 years, 11 months ago