Striking Resemblance
Sonic the Hedgehog. Calvino’s use of quickness speaks of how the manifestations of quickness used to be horses but has evolved to cars and trains and other means of transportation. I found that in my life quickness always manifests itself as a spiky haired blue hedgehog named Sonic. Sonic is the hero of the self titled Sega Genesis series of games. Sonic exemplifies both lethargy and speed as real life hedgehogs move methodically (perhaps not so much as the infamous sloth) but in his adventures he has come to possess super-human (super-hedgehog?) speed; Sonic can run faster than the speed of sound!
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February 24, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Quickness Analogy « Bee Ell Oh Gee
[...] often only 15 frames per second which is barely above the 12 fps that humans can perceive as laggy. Video games generally run around 30 fps. Thus frame rates are an analogy for Calvino’s memo on quickness as [...]