Italo Calvino · September 26, 2024
Calling this a novel might not be entirely accurate. It recreates a scene of Marco Polo describing cities to Kublai Khan, yet it lacks a traditional plot. Polo describes fifty-five cities,which may or may not exist, while Kublai Khan attempts to grasp the true significance of these descriptions. I had expected the cities themselves to be the protagonists. Even more interesting, however, is the implicit…
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Haruki Murakami · September 17, 2024
Toru, 37 years of age, arriving on a plane into Hamburg overhears an orchestral version of Norwegian wood, ripping him back to his youth where he once strolled the outskirts of Tokyo with Naoko. Similar to Proust’s tea soaked Madeleine in In Search of Lost Time, he doesn’t control this flood of memory, and has to sit back and let it happen. What is more…
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Gabriel García Márquez · August 24, 2024
Aureliano, Aureliano, Aureliano. The Buendías give their children the same names, making it difficult to keep track of who belongs to which generation. What is more interesting, however, is that Úrsula herself understands the family through these repetitions, associating the Aurelianos with a withdrawn disposition and the José Arcadios with impulsiveness. She lives through generations of the family and recognizes these tendencies in her descendants,…
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Yasunari Kawabata · July 24, 2024
The novel starts with our protagonist, Shimamura, watching a mysterious girl named Yoko through her reflection in a train window. He isn’t just watching her, but sort of studying her, experiencing her, as a combination of her person, her reflection, and the darkness over the landscape outside. This theme of a mediated interaction tends to recur throughout the book, with Shimamura noticeably being more comfortable…
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A camera head on a pan-and-tilt gimbal, with image processing off the moving assembly and the camera ribbon setting the hardest mechanical constraint.
A Fusion add-in that generates planetary gearboxes and cycloidal reducers, then checks geometry, fits, assemblies, and manufacturing exports.
A team-built mousetrap car tuned toward a 25-foot stop through printed parts, axle experiments, and repeated trials.
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