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Calvino is the master trickster of modern literature, an author who builds an imaginary stage of words around the reader, until the reader becomes the protagonist. His most recent novel. If on a winter's night a traveler... is written in the second person, describing how "you," the reader, search for the lost ending of the novel If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino. More than any other novelist since Nabokov, Calvino breaks down the barriers between the novel and real life, not by making the story seem realistic, but by making reality seem like...
...another tale of the beach, the book-loving Amadeo drags some vacation reading to a beautiful, solitary cape and espies a beautiful, solitary sunbather, beginning "The Adventure of the Reader." The summertime pas de deus between the two would be a textbook Harlequin romance, except Amadeo is reading a different book, one more interesting than the pedestrian sexual encounter that his beach mate wants to create with...
This summer Cambridge asked OIT to process the ballots because "Harvard has the fastest high-speed reader in the city," and can process 1000 punched cards perminute, Scheir added...
Unfortunately, the tabulations ran into unforeseen delays, and the results were not final until 1:30 a.m., four later than expected Computing Center Manager Peter J. Heffernan said OIT's card reader got fouled up because of the poor condition of some of the cards. "Some of the cards had been folded or bent," said Heffernan. "They had to be smoothed out before the reader would accept them...
Voters used a stylus-like instrument to punch out boxes for as many as 235 candidates or referenda. After the polls closed, the cards were taken to OIT where they were fed into a card reader that tabulated the votes...