Mostly NP: Vaucanson's duck never dies;Carey's new novel--(and where in Hawthorne?)?

[Paul Mackin]

On 3/31/2012 11:05 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
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> Like biological clockwork: the cogs and wheels of the human condition
> Irish Times
> The duck that was actually invented in the 18th century by de Vaucanson, and that Carey took – as in their own ways both Hawthorne and Pynchon had done ...
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The duck is mentioned as the hero of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story 
"The Artist of the Beautiful."