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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8 years, 1 month ago

love vs lust topic/heartbreak

[...] Andreas was overwhelmed by the contrast between love and lust. Love turned out to be soul-crippling, stomach-turning, weirdly clasutrophobic; a sense of endlessness bottled up inside him, endless weight, endless potential, with only the small outlet of a shivering pale girl in a bad rain jack…

—p.100 Purity The Republic of Bad Taste (75) by Jonathan Franzen
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not just another seduction topic/heartbreak

[...] he didn't want this to be just another seduction. He wanted her to be the way out of the wasteland of seduction he'd been living in.

—p.99 The Republic of Bad Taste (75) by Jonathan Franzen
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labor utopia

[...] Their theory was that the technology-driven gains in productivity and the resulting loss of manufacturing jobs would inevitably result in better wealth distribution, including generous payments to most of the population for doing nothing, when Capital realised that it could not afford to paup…

—p.45 Purity in Oakland (1) by Jonathan Franzen
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regulatory weather

[...] depending on the regulatory weather (not climate but weather, for it changed seasonally and sometimes seemingly hourly) [...]

—p.28 Purity in Oakland (1) by Jonathan Franzen