Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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(adjective) showing or pointing out directly / Deictic terms are words whose meaning shifts depending on the point of view of the speaker

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in which the deictic element "here" assumes a double meaning and points both to the referred scene and the insertion's locutionary act itself

—p.163 "That is Not Wholly True" Notes on Annotation in David Foster Wallace's Shorter Fiction (and Non-Fiction) (156) missing author
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7 years, 5 months ago


It killed it. The deictics are so vague. Nobody really knows what hurts or what helps.

—p.42 DEVIL’S BAIT (27) by Leslie Jamison
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2 weeks, 4 days ago


Soon, you will not be you. You, like all of us, are a deictic case.

—p.301 THE NPC (281) by Gabrielle Zevin
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3 months, 4 weeks ago