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Auden flees the small town of Capreol for Toronto, bewildered, HIV positive, and in search of an entirely new personality. He falls in love with orgy maestro Wrik, mainly because the old Auden would never even have talked to him. And through Wrik, he meets Steve Reinke, his new best friend. Steve – and here’s where it gets confusing – is, in real life as well as in The Steve Machine, a renowned video artist, someone who makes television for one person at a time, small-screen excursions designed to cure arthritis or night blindness. Despite being a virtuoso with video, however, Steve is not so good with love. He falls for a football star, and, with his medium-is-the-message videotapes, is able to slow down the other players so his beau can run past them all at normal speed. Though the team wins, Steve does not, and the jock dumps him. Then there’s the chess whiz, followed soon after by hustlers and tattoo artists, and and then Jody, who’s got a mouth so big and red that Steve is overcome with lust. Truth is, it’s a mouth used to settling scores, only Steve doesn’t catch this. Blinded by passion, our fictional Steve contracts HIV, then sets to work building a videotape that will relieve him, and the millions of others afflicted, of their illness. On the way, he stars in a reality TV show, decides to wear only white paper suits, and meets childhood idol Yoko Ono. Auden accompanies Steve in this quest that is at once a plague narrative, a love story, a reflection on media technology, and a joy to read. As an added bonus, this volume has been written both as a regular hold-in-your-hand novel with a beginning, middle, and end (though not necessarily in that order), and as a machine designed to replace the voice of the inner monologue with something (or someone) far more soothing and satisfying. Like the videotapes of Steve Reinke, the book itself is a machine. The Steve Machine.

Полный вариант заголовка: «Theorie des machines simples en ayant egard au frottement de leurs parties et a la roideur des cordages / par C. A. Coulomb».

Полный вариант заголовка: «A treatise on spinning machinery : Illustrated with plans of different machines made use of in that art : from the spindle and distaff of the ancients to the machines which have been invented or improved by the moderns : with some preliminary observations, tending to mshew that the arts of spinning, weaving, and sewing, were invented by the ingenuity of females : and a postskript, including an interesting account of the mode of spinning yarn in Ireland / By Andrew Gray».

Книга для чтения в VI—VII классах школ с углубленным изучением английского языка. В основу книги положен адаптированный вариант повести английской писательницы Кэтрин Оуэнз Пиар (Catherine Owens Peare), в которой подробно и увлекательно рассказывается о жизненном и творческом пути замечательного английского писателя Роберта Льюиса Стивенсона. В книге также даны отрывки из романов «Остров сокровищ», «Черная стрела», «Похищенный» и стихотворения из сборника «Детский цветник стихов». После каждой главы предлагаются вопросы и разнообразные задания для контроля понимания прочитанного, а в конце книги имеются темы для обсуждения помещенного в ней материала, англо-русский словарь и списки имен собственных и географических названий.