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

I just had no idea where to begin hitting

"I almost attacked him on the spot. I just had no idea where to begin hitting. He's much larger than he was a week ago."

—p.195 The Broom of the System 11 (175) by David Foster Wallace
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7 years, 11 months ago

the urine dream inspo/dream

A truly, truly horrible dream, last night. Don't even want to talk about it. I am fresh out of bed. Urinating. I look down. Just a lazy stream of early-morning maple-syrup urine. Suddenly the single stream is a doubled, forking stream. Then a tripled trident stream. Four, five, ten. Soon I am at th…

—p.164 10 (159) by David Foster Wallace
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7 years, 11 months ago

what might that say about pictures inspo/interiority inspo/revelation inspo/setting

Do pictures tell? I have a color Polaroid of Vance at seven and Veronica at twenty-nine traversing a rickety dry-gray dock in Nova Scotia to board a fishing boat. The water is a deep iron smeared with plates of foam; the sky is a thin iron smeared with same; the mass of white gulls around Vance's o…

—p.164 10 (159) by David Foster Wallace
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Kafka at an Amherst/Mt. Holyoke mixer

[...] Modern party-dance is simply writhing to suggestive music. It is ridiculous, silly to watch and excruciatingly embarrassing to perform. It is ridiculous, and yet absolutely everyone does it, so that it is the person who does not want _to do the ridiculous thing who feels out of place and un…

—p.158 9 (146) by David Foster Wallace
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care for a Corfu nut?

[...] Care for a Corfu nut, by the way? No? They're quite good. I got them in Canada, fishing. [...]

—p.153 9 (146) by David Foster Wallace