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Laughing Data is recursively funny, in that Spock, ostensibly Data's precursor in the Star Trek pantheon, only laughed in one episode (primarily because he was actively suppressing his human/emotional side, and in that episode, was under the influence of some sort of emotion-enhancing plant), while Data actively sought his ostensibly absent human side, since he was technically all machine.
As for the comment about Russian novels, having read a few myself (particularly Dostoyevsky), I would like to cite a recent Arts & Letters Daily article that pointed out that Russian politics, often infuriatingly confusing, can be best understood through 19th century Russian literature in Foreign Policy: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/02/27/how_gogol_explains_the_post_soviet_world_and_chekhov_and_dostoyevsky?page=full
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