VV(11): A True Windup Boy ...

[Dave Monroe]

And for those who can both acquire and read them ...

Beaune, Jean-Claude.  L'Automate et ses mobiles.
   Paris: Flammarion, 1980.

Doyon, A. and L. Liaigre.  Jacques Vaucanson,
   mecanicien de genie.  Paris: Presses
   Universitaires de France, 1966.

Jauch, Ursula Pia.  Jenseits der Maschine:
   Philosophie, Ironie und Aesthetik bei Julien
   Offray de la Mettrie (1709-1751).  Munich:
   Carl Hanser Verlag, 1988.

>From the endnotes to ...
 
> Liu, Catherine.  Copying Machines: Taking Notes
>    for the Automaton.  Mpls: U of Minn P, 2000.
> 
> Chapter 4, "Getting Ahead with Machines? The Cases
> of Jacques Vaucanson and Therese des Hayes"

And thanks, Terrance, kai, David, et al. for comments
I'll attempt to gte to as soon as I can here.  Had not
anticipated this week to be so disastrous offscreen as
it's proving to be.  But between the doctors, lawyers,
relatives, and, now ...

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