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).

(noun) use of the wrong word for the context / (noun) use of a forced and especially paradoxical figure of speech (as blind mouths)

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catachresis



“What is a catachresis?” I said. [...] “It’s a metaphor that’s become part of common everyday speech and is no longer perceived as a metaphor. For example: needle’s eye, bottleneck. And an Archilochian?”

—p.595 The Sonora Desert (1976) (589) by Roberto Bolaño
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