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).

(adjective) making soft or supple / (adjective) soothing especially to the skin or mucous membrane / (adjective) making less intense or harsh; mollifying / (noun) something that softens or soothes

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emollient
emollience



This reformist vision of public space – as the emollient of class struggle, if not the bedrock of the American polis – is now as obsolete as Keynesian nostrums of full employment

like exfoliant lol

—p.203 Fortress L.A. (199) by Mike Davis
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I grew to be wary of that rich emollience of tone, that tempered, bourgeois liquidity

—p.317 Becoming them (315) by James Wood
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3 years, 10 months ago