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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Book of Numbers
by multiple authors

Book of Numbers
by multiple authors

Book of Numbers
by multiple authors


A whiff of brine, a swank trestle adumbrant, Loading Only No Standing, 14th & 10th—this was Tetration’s NY HQ.

—p.67 Gut-Level Legislation, or, Redistribution (67) by Mark Greif
notable
4 years, 3 months ago


Southern California Country adumbrates a full-fledged theory of the singular historical conditions – ranging from militarized class organization to ‘super-boosterism’ – that made possible the breakneck urbanization of Los Angeles

—p.32 Sunshine or Noir? (13) by Mike Davis
notable
2 years, 7 months ago


as the collection does not come together organically as much as adumbrate the problems Wallace was having with his third novel

—p.132 Finality: 'Not Even Close to Complete': The Many Forms of The Pale King (123) by David Hering
uncertain
7 years, 8 months ago


That ex-boyfriend was Nick Land, who adumbrated, in a series of strange texts that blend the style of horror fiction with high theory, a view that became known as accelerationism

—p.171 How To Care: On Mark Fisher (167) by Phil Christman
notable
1 year, 8 months ago


The missing volume, in other words, would presumably have adumbrated a theory of proletarian agency as an integral aspect of this self-making of labor as antagonist of capital

—p.20 Old Gods, New Enigmas: Notes on Revolutionary Agency (1) by Mike Davis
notable
1 year ago


he did not know that the experience he has put me through, all those times, in all those years, is the one I’ve adumbrated, for a few hours, from time to time, just now?

—p.78 II. PITCH DARK (43) by Renata Adler
notable
1 year, 7 months ago


the traditional Marxist attack (derived from Taint and Blinks) adumbrates a theory of types, as distinct from contingent phenomena

—p.198 The Writings of Lee Russell: New Left Review (1964–7) (151) by Peter Wollen
notable
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Sonora Review DFW Tribute
by multiple authors

Sonora Review DFW Tribute
by multiple authors

Sonora Review DFW Tribute
by multiple authors


his adumbration of this potential "VIR"--vicious infinite regress

—p.5 Editor's Introduction (4) by Michael Sheehan
confirm
7 years, 4 months ago


he was greatly talented at describing closed worlds, and adumbrating their conventions

—p.218 George Orwell's Very English Revolution (204) by James Wood
notable
7 years, 4 months ago


a frail memory or adumbration of some broader consensus

—p.76 by Terry Eagleton
notable
7 years ago


the shared positioning adumbrated in "Think" proposes

—p.127 The Case of "Think" in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: Is Dialogism Possible? (95) missing author
notable
1 year, 5 months ago


for readers of poetry or gazers at paintings or films, listeners to music, for all of us who have found there comfort and consolation and instruction, unnervings, adumbrations of meaning, echoes of intuitions we hadn’t even understood that we had

—p.343 On Teaching Poetry (341) by Robert Hass
strange
5 years ago