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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we're going to have to be the parents

For me, the last few years of the postmodern era have seemed a bit like the way you feel when you're in high school and your parents go on a trip, and you throw a party. You get all your friends over and throw this wild disgusting fabulous party. For a while it's great, free and freeing, parental a…

—p.52 Conversations with David Foster Wallace An Expanded Interview with David Foster Wallace (21) by David Foster Wallace
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the point of meaning in a rabid modern world

Desperate Characters is a novel in revolt against its own perfection. The questions it raises are radical and unpleasant. What is the point of meaning--especially literary meaning--in a rabid modern world? Why bother creating and preserving order if civilization is every bit as killing as the a…

—p.321 Farther Away No End To It (311) by Jonathan Franzen
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anomie

With three kids to support, he dare not venture down the road of anomie and irony and entropy, the Beat road that Kerouac blazed and Pynchon followed.

—p.307 The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (303) by Jonathan Franzen
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