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   From: davidD@qimr.edu.au   
      
   >Metropolis   
   >       Did not realize there was a book.  The movie was good for the   
   >       era, but I recall it as preachy.   
      
   Yeah, I read the English paperback version as a ten year old - the only   
   thing I remember is the Paternoster machine (which I think was a bit   
   like a rosary, but for the 8 hour shift). One of the books my father   
   thought were a bad influence ;)   
      
   Cheers, David Duffy.   
      
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