I daresay the Clack is wonderful if you want to know the prawn market figures in Genua. But can you write S.W.A.L.K. on a clacks? Can you seal it with a loving kiss? Can you cry your tears onto a clacks, can you smell it, can you enclose a pressed flower? A letter is more than just a message. And a clacks is so expensive in any case that the average man in the street can just about afford in time of crisis: GRANDADS DEAD FUNERAL TUES. A day’s wages to send a message as warm and as human as a throwing knife? But a letter is real. -- Terry Pratchett (This is from Going Postal, a brilliant novel in the Discworld Series, set in a world thats disc-shaped, and carried on the backs of four elephants, who in turn stand on the pock-marked back of Great ATuin, the World Turtle, forever traversing the universe)
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