Curiosity turned into ritual. Each night he chose one problem and traced the steps as if he were reverse-engineering the mind that’d written the marginalia. Some of the annotations were procedural—“use energy method here”—others were human small talk: “Anna: 3–0.” He imagined lives hinted at by the notes. A solitary night studying beam shear diagrams. A hurried scribble on a train. A triumphant circled answer.
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