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In the end, the textbook was less about compressors and more about how a city decides what to preserve. Arif’s note—simple, insistent—had become a program: keep the cold; keep the letter; keep the story. The last line he ever wrote in his ledger before he died was not a technical tip but a sentence that could be stitched into a marginalia of any book: "Fixing a machine is a way of fixing ourselves."