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 nation of bad-ass firsts

[...] Every facet of Amarillo a testament to a nation of bad-ass firsts: first in prison population, first in meat consumption, first in operational strategic warheads, first in per-capita carbon emissions, first in line for the Rapture. [...]

—p.173 Purity Too Much Information (169) by Jonathan Franzen
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glasnost

Meanwhile in Russia there was glasnost, there was Gorby. The true-believing little Republic, feeling betrayed by its Sovet father, cracked down harder on its own dissidents.

—p.147 The Republic of Bad Taste (75) by Jonathan Franzen
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a fleeting glimpse of God in the math

[...] If time was infinite, then three seconds and three years represented the same infinitely small fraction of it. And so, if inflicting three years of fear and suffering was wrong, as everyone would agree, then inflicting three seconds of it was no less wrong. He caught a fleeting glimpse of God…

—p.143 The Republic of Bad Taste (75) by Jonathan Franzen
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berm

Beyond the berm were disused rail tracks

—p.112 The Republic of Bad Taste (75) by Jonathan Franzen
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