Dancing Machines

[Dave Monroe]

McCarren, Felicia M.  Dancing Machines:
   Choreographies of the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.
   Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2003.

http://books.google.com/books?id=hV6gszYNiLwC

"A remarkable innovation would be the use of automata, to play Su
Feng's handmaidens.  'A German engineer is building them,' said
Itague.  'they're lovely creatures: one will even unfastened your
robe.  Another will play a zither--although the music itself comes
from the pit.  But they move so gracefully!  Not like machines at
all." (V., Ch. 14, Sec. i, p. 396)

http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=L#melanie

http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/v/vinlove.html

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