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In a distant future, human boy Tetsuo boards a space train for a distant planet in a quest to be reborn in an immortal robot body.

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Along the way, Tetsuro has many adventures on many different and exotic planets and meets many kinds of people, both human and alien, living and machine. Increasingly, Tetsuro realizes that a machine body will not fix all of his problems. Most of the machine people[b] he meets regret the decision to give up their humanity.

Knuckle Under or Knuckle Down: Choosing the Right Phrase in English Writing – grammarguide.blog

the grit of the playground, the dust of the ring

https://www.etymonline.com/word/knuckle

any joint makes more sense

knuckle down from the game of marbles

The word “knuckle” anciently meant any point of the body, and was commonly applied to the knee. It is now retained in this sense “a knuckle of veal,” hence to “knuckle under” meant to kneel and crave pardon. “Knock under” is merely a corrupt contraction of knuckle under. Both phrases signify submission, and are stated by Johnson to refer to the old custom of striking the under side of a table with the knuckles in admission of having been beaten in an argument.

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even though this little bit of antipodean etymology feels specious, i like the idea of knuckle anciently referring to any part of the body (but not synecdochally all of it?)

especially the knee

knock under