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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a challenge to the inscriptions of moralized reason

There are still people for whom a strike is a scandal: i.e., not only a mistake, a disorder, or a misdemeanor, but a moral crime, an intolerable action which in their eyes is an offense to Nature. Inadmissible, scandalous, revolting are the words used by certain readers of Le Figaro about a…

—p.149 Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation The Man in the Street on Strike (149) by Roland Barthes
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universal can opener

[...] the grandiloquent designation of the Bible held at arm's length like the universal can opener of a quack peddler [...]

—p.111 Billy Graham at the Vel' d'Hiv' (109) by Roland Barthes
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extract an existential beauty from an essential beauty

Still, in that deified countenance, something sharper than a mask appears: a sort of deliberate and therefore human relation between the curve of the nostrils and the superciliary arcade, a rare, individual function between two zones of the face; the mask is merely an addition of lines, the face is…

—p.74 Garbo's Face (73) by Roland Barthes