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Wait, the clacks are real!? That’s so cool!

• laurentl 8y ago
  Not only that, but in The Count of Monte-Cristo, the hero subverts a Chappe telegraph to send a fake message to Paris to undo his nemesis. Sound familiar ? (although in the original story, the fake message causes a run on the stock exchange, thereby ruining his enemy. And the operator is bribed. Less romantic and much more prosaic than Terry Pratchett's version)
• BerislavLopac 8y ago
  Well, that is what inspired them, seveda! ;-)