Battle Angel Alita
by Yukito Kishiro · first published 2009
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on “Ask HN: Which books have you re-read the most?” ↗…to put in energy to do the work, which results in _even more heat_. At scale a.k.a cities this creates measurable bubbles of heat (+1-2degC) around AC'd places. As Desty Nova puts it in Gunnm (a.k.a Battle Angel Alita): Now becomes the past in an instant — and everyone will eventually die! Destiny triumphs over human knowledge and goes mad! That is the way of things! I spit upon this frail, crazed, world! I spit…
on “Europeans should learn to love the air-conditioner” ↗Wow. I used to do this with drawing (I would just re-draw mangas like Dragon Ball and Battle Angel Alita) and I did this with French writing as well! Copying long paragraphs from Albert Cohen and Flaubert because it was so damn good I just wanted to absorb their writing as much as I could. That process was…
on “Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels” ↗