Pynchon, CofL49 Look What I found in Shakespeare

[Michael Bailey]

Albert Rolls  wrote:
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> And since when did Shakespeare, or Elizabethans in general, worry about anachronism?
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> Brutus: Peace! count the clock.
> Cassius: The clock has stricken three.
>  Julius Caesar
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> Clocks striking the right time in ancient Rome. Not by a long shot.
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true, it's fiction, he can put anything in there he wants.