Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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(adjective) producing no useful result; futile / (adjective) being at leisure; idle / (adjective) lacking use or effect; functionless

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Book of Numbers
by multiple authors

Book of Numbers
by multiple authors

Book of Numbers
by multiple authors


To the West Beta justifies mess, excess, otiosity, sloth, and only the East understands it for what it is, the basic prime condition.

thought it meant smelly lol

—p.298 Slickheads (284) by Lawrence Jackson
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4 years, 1 month ago


because both unsubtle & otiose reminder of gender)

on the constant references to Kate's menstruation

—p.100 The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress (73) by David Foster Wallace
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7 years, 5 months ago


another both advantage and disadvantage of nasal cocaine is that eating becomes otiose and optional

—p.717 by David Foster Wallace
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6 years, 10 months ago


It is of course easy to fall back on an otiose ‘economist’ explanation, which attributes Luddism to the simple cause and effect of the Orders in Council.

i see this word and i think oily. am i thinking adipose?

—p.543 An Army of Redressers (472) by E.P. Thompson
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3 weeks, 5 days ago


As Alan Greenspan observed in his otiose way

I thought it meant oily lol

—p.17 More Blood, Less Oil (15) missing author
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5 years ago