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<DIV>"This steed is good for about a mile!"</DIV>
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<DIV>This line is from the Gyro Gearloose story where Gyro decides he is
going to get away from machines and inventions and live the simple life on the
desert. He even tells the Helper to get out of his sight, but he quickly finds
how hard the simple life can be and finds himself in danger of dying of thirst.
The Helper mounts a rabbit and rides to the rescue, which is where Daniel's
quote comes in. The Helper collapses too, but is revived by a lightning strike,
and manages to find the old prospector that Gyro had seen and held up as an
example early in the story. The prospector sends his "assistants", a pair of
robots, to bring Gyro in, and explains to Gyro that he is a scientist who came
to the desert to escape from machines, but found he couldn't get along without
them. This leaves poor, confused Gyro not knowing "whether I'm coming or
going!"</DIV>
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