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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the efficacy of prayer

"[...] Do you believe in the efficacy of prayer Pip?"

"Not really."

"Try to," Dreyfuss said.

—p.527 Purity The Rain Comes (515) by Jonathan Franzen
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antenimbusian

"Of all the antenimbusian systems, the legal system is the most intellectually offensive to me."

—p.485 The Killer (445) by Jonathan Franzen
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descant

turning up at their door to descant on Annagret's ingratitude

the second meaning in this case

—p.459 The Killer (445) by Jonathan Franzen
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a wishful concept of himself

He saw that he'd trapped himself. He'd set up house less with a woman than with a wishful concept of himself as a man who could live happily ever after with a woman. And now he was bored with the concept.

—p.457 The Killer (445) by Jonathan Franzen