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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this new project of realism

[...] this new project of realism is founded on the search for human truth and linguistic honesty, guided by the principle of communication and aware of its own necessary fallibility. It is further hoped that the writing of this generation will come to be seen not as the undirected hysteria of a ge…

—p.35 Consider David Foster Wallace The Book, the Broom, and the Ladder: Philosophical Groundings in the Work of David Foster Wallace (24) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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equipoise

Lenore Beadsman's erratic progress towards equipoise and self-reliance

—p.33 The Book, the Broom, and the Ladder: Philosophical Groundings in the Work of David Foster Wallace (24) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

[...] challenged the tradition of thinking of the mind as a mirror of reality, extending the argument to challenge the idea that language should in some way represent the world exactly as it is, if such could be discovered. He found fault with the idea that Philosophy could seek this sort of repres…

—p.31 The Book, the Broom, and the Ladder: Philosophical Groundings in the Work of David Foster Wallace (24) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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skeletal narrative

what I call Walace's "skeletal narrative," which involves the undermining and eventual collapse of a surface narrative to reveal the "true" or "real" story, by means of jarring elements planted within the narrative voice itself

—p.30 The Book, the Broom, and the Ladder: Philosophical Groundings in the Work of David Foster Wallace (24) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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