"[The linotype] illustrates two principles: 1) that the way to imitate a human activity is never to replicate the human action; 2) that the resulting pressures on human behavior are apt to elude foresight utterly, and be occulted from most present sight, to leave hindsight flabbergasted." --Hugh Kenner, The Mechanic Muse (New York: Oxford UP, 1987), pp. 7-8