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[Toby G Levy]

        Mason, Dixon and Armand decide to have Tom Hynes build a duck
decoy that will attract Armand's duck. Soon Armand's duck is spending
hours staring at it. The duck soon discovers the decoy is wood, but
still has hopes for it as a companion. The duck takes to flying back and
forth following Mason and Dixon's line.

vw#131: Orthoganal - Relating to or composed of right angles.

        The duck takes to accosting travelers along the line, asking for
news of Armand. She tells them what it was like when she was possessed by
her creator Vaucanson.

        One day the duck decides to stay in one place and let the earth
revolve below her, and afterward she tells Mason and Dixon about it,
which spark's Dixon's paranoia.

        Wick's audience interrupts the story to talk about automata, and
Euphrenia recalls the days she was paid to pretend she was an automaton
oboe player.

Toby