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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pontine

hence the pontine claim above

referring to the claim that Borges is the bridge between modernism and postmodernism

—p.294 Borges on the Couch (285) by David Foster Wallace
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eo ipso

was the Flaubert who wrote Madame Bovary eo ipso suicidal?

—p.292 Borges on the Couch (285) by David Foster Wallace
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augury

an inquisition into dreams, reality, guilt, augury, and mortal terror

on Borges' distintive interrogative ending

—p.290 Borges on the Couch (285) by David Foster Wallace
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limpid

the limpid, witty, pansophical, profoundly adult writer we know from his stories

on Borges

—p.286 Borges on the Couch (285) by David Foster Wallace
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