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).

Activity

You added a vocabulary term
8 years ago

teleological

if the phenomenology and the teleology of suicidality are the same as that of addiction, it seems fair to say that David died of boredom

—p.45 Farther Away (15) by Jonathan Franzen
notable
You added a vocabulary term
8 years ago

interstice

However continually he was suffering in his last summer, there was still plenty of time, in the interstices between his identically painful thoughts, to entertain the idea of suicide

—p.42 Farther Away (15) by Jonathan Franzen
notable
You added a note
8 years ago

a lifelong prisoner on the island of himself why/dfw

[...] If love is nevertheless excluded from his work, it's because he never quite felt that he deserved to receive it. He was a lifelong prisoner on the island of himself. What looked like gentle contours from a distance were in fact sheer cliffs. Sometimes only a little of him was crazy, sometimes…

—p.40 Farther Away (15) by Jonathan Franzen
You added a note
8 years ago

stranded on his or her own existential island why/dfw why/read

The curious thing about David's fiction, though, is how recognized and comforted, how loved, his most devoted readers feel when reading it. To the extent that each of us is stranded on his or her own existential island--and I think it's approximately correct to say that his most susceptible reade…

—p.39 Farther Away (15) by Jonathan Franzen
You added a note
8 years ago

DFW and nature

David wrote about weather as well as anyone who ever put words on paper, and he loved his dogs more purely than he loved anything or anyone else, but nature itself didn't interest him, and he was utterly indifferent to birds. Once, when we were driving near Stinson Beach, in California, I'd stopped…

—p.37 Farther Away (15) by Jonathan Franzen