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That is exactly how I envision the clacks based on Pratchett's descriptions. Maybe without exactly that many wires ...

But clacks are optical telegraphs [1]; they communicate by semaphores, not wires.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_telegraph

For me, this picture is more of China Miéville than Pratchett.

Wouldn’t the number of wires be…. zero? The clacks are optical. They’re semaphore.

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