There's Gold in that thar Internet

[tealin]

Good heavens.

Everything you could possibly know about the Clacks... except a useful diagram of gears. Does anyone here like drawing gears? I try, but I can't stand it if they don't work, and I'm not interested in wasting valuable storyboarding time engineering a clacks tower, thank you very much!

By the way... why is such a detailed entry on an entirely fictional telecommunications system embedded in the midst of what appears to be a labour law website? Am I missing something?

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[chocolatepot.livejournal.com]

Perhaps because there's so much...business intrigue going on with it? Dunno, really.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe because that's what Pratchett is so brilliant at: exposing actual social problems in fiction in a way that is less (?) threatening and in some ways more real.
Clacks are probably a big metaphor for something, like in Jingo. I read the whole book and thought Jingo was the stupidest name, then hit antijingoism in my history textbook. I had to read Jingo all over again!
Anyway, brilliant job in doing the clacks... I never really understood them, especially in Monstrous Regiment (quote from Henry Knox about women's suffrage, I believe, by the way)