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What is the Cooting's machine? It must have an actual purpose?
Iain I wonder if the author constructed the name from an anagram of known air pollutants - "Cooting's machine" can equal "Nicotine" + "Smog" + "HCA" (where…moreI wonder if the author constructed the name from an anagram of known air pollutants - "Cooting's machine" can equal "Nicotine" + "Smog" + "HCA" (where HCA is hydrocarbon aerosols). No doubt there could be a number of other possibilities, but the purpose of the machine, at least from Klara's view point, seems to be one of air polluting. (less)
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Klara and the Sun
by Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
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