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The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

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The World's Fair audience tended to think of the machine as unqualifiedly good, strong, stupid and obedient. They thought of it as a giant slave, an untiring steel Negro, controlled by Reason in a world of infinite resources. Robert Hughes
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