MDDM23: A Digestionary Process

[Dave Monroe]

By the way, from Catherine Liu, Copying Machines:
Taking Notes for the Automaton (Minneapolis: U of
Minnesota P, 2000) ...

"Strangely enough, rumor has it that Robert-Houdin,
master of tricks, escapes, and sleight of hand,
discovered Vaucanson's trick late in the nineteenth
century, before the automatons were lost in a fire"
(p. 199, n. 22)

As in ...

Robert-Houdin, Jean-Eugène (1805-1871)
French magician considered to be the father of modern
conjuring. The first magician to use electricity, he
also improved the signalling method for the "thought
transference" trick. Harry Houdini named himself after
Robert-Houdin; "the great conjurer" 675

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/alpha/r.html

Speaking of GR, p. 675.  And see as well ...

http://www.rampling.net/kempelen/Houdin.htm

http://www.rampling.net/kempelen/

http://gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca/houdin.htm

http://www.uelectric.com/pastimes/manning.htm

www.automates-anciens.com/pages_principales/houdin.htm

http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/ReadingRoom/Nonfiction/RobertHoudin/

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0008&msg=48693&sort=date

Always something to be learned on the Pynchon List ...

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