For Pynchon's terms "Badass" and his use of the term "Golem" and Freud's "return of the repressed, see "Is it O.K. to be a Luddite?" http://mediafilter.org/ZK/Conf/Conf_Email/March.30.1996.23.05.07 For more on the Duck See also, Ware's Hyper-Arts M&D, D for "DUCK" and Vaucanson and Elaboration & Illustration. TF