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I've always been fascinated by animatronics and automata and Walt Disney's vision for his Abraham Lincoln project has a lot of parallels with Vaucanson's endeavours to create mechanical life. This in turn, I feel, has connections to one of my favourite books, Frankenstein, in the ways in which each creator is obsessed with creating life but too freaked out by the consequences to continue... Lol!