46% of India's energy comes from renewable. For UK it is 51%. Given how much poorer India is than the UK on a per capita basis, this is quite impressive.
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And the naiveté appears as part of the saintliness of the hero.

Maybe my vision is affected by being in the midst of the 20 volume Rougon-Macquart series where Zola gleefully skewers most of the characters. Bánffy just feels a little muted in contrast.

I have read about half of the first volume and enjoyed it. Bánffy being a member of the aristocratic class that he describes, I felt pulls his punches somewhat. The heroes are a little too heroic, I thought.

think can be developed even further not only in its current quasi-mathematical form but even in a more rigorously mathematical way.

Liked this essay a lot and its central claim of "iterative narrative" (where a single narrative assertion encompasses multiple repeated events of similar nature like going for a walk or sleepless nights) that structures Proust's text. Genette's structuralist criticism has a mathematical feel that I

strict appropriateness of the symbols chosen, but despite the semantic misfit it got the point across.