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

one way or the other you will be part of me

[...] Just leaving was an anonymous delivery boy, having delivered to Lenore an enormous enclosing wreath of flowers, red-and-white roses arranged in an interlocking Yin and Yang. The wreath sat atop the switchboard wastebasket, being too big to fit inside. Definitely in the wastebasket, though, wa…

—p.292 The Broom of the System 13 (281) by David Foster Wallace
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7 years, 11 months ago

I've been in a men's room with the man

"[...] I've been in a men's room with the man. Do you hear? I've been in a men's room with the man."

—p.288 13 (281) by David Foster Wallace
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7 years, 11 months ago

I know I'm more than a little neurotic

"I know I'm more than a little neurotic. I know I'm possessive. I know I'm fussy and vaguely effeminate. Largely without chin, neither tall nor strong, balding badly from the center out, so that I'm forced to wear a ridiculous beret--though of course a very nice beret, too."

—p.286 13 (281) by David Foster Wallace
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7 years, 11 months ago

that would involve paper, and so trees, et cetera

"I thought you said the thing with John was that he was so reluctant to be in any way involved with anything's death that he usually refused to eat, since every eating entails a death. That's not anorexia."

"It is, sort of, if you think about it."

"And that he had a horizontal proof of the in…

—p.281 13 (281) by David Foster Wallace
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7 years, 11 months ago

technology does affect interpretation, after all

"Looks like Gramma screwed up, unless perhaps the guy was dropped from a helicopter into this exact position; that's one possibility Dr. W never fathomed. I guess there wre no helicopters back in his day. Technology does affect interpretation, after all, doesn't it?"

—p.251 11 (175) by David Foster Wallace