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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7 years, 11 months ago

Fieldbinder's deep green eyes

Fieldbinder smiled coolly and speculatively stroked his own generous jaw, lingering over the deep cleft that somehow through physical processes obscure caught and reflected light in such a way as to blind anyone who tried to look directly into Fieldbinder's deep green eyes

_deep blue eyes, the…

—p.350 The Broom of the System 16 (324) by David Foster Wallace
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blond and virile, with a socio-economic background

RICK: How do you know his age? That he's blond and virile, with a socio-economic background?

—p.347 16 (324) by David Foster Wallace
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nobody grins wryly

"And the writing was just so . . . This one line I remember: 'He grinned wryly.' Grinned wryly? Who grins wryly? Nobody grins wryly at all, except in stories. It wasn't real at all. It was like a story about a story. I put it on Mavis's desk with the ones about the proctologist and the snowblower."

—p.335 16 (324) by David Foster Wallace
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pretend I'm a sperm

JAY: [...] Only a strong membrane can suck in a sperm, Lenore. Here, I know, pretend I'm a sperm.

LENORE: I don't care for the way this session is going one bit.

JAY: No, really. Be secure. Pretend I'm a sperm cell. Here. I take the string out of the ... hood of my sweatshirt, affix it to my …

—p.331 16 (324) by David Foster Wallace
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self-loathing-in-the-midst-of-adulation

"That last one is actually rather interesting. A Kafka parody, though sensitively done. Self-loathing-in-the-midst-of-adulation piece. Collegiate, but interesting."

—p.308 14 (293) by David Foster Wallace