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practicality by mechanical writing, as printing was at first
called, the response to the new time sense was very ambiguous
and even mocking. Shakespeare’s sonnets are full of the twin
themes of immortality of fame conferred by the engine of print,
as well as the petty futility of daily existence as measured by
the clock:
When I doe count the clock that tels the time,
And see the brave day sunck in hideous night. . . .
Then of thy beauty do I question make
That thou among the wastes of time must goe.
(Sonnet X)
In Macbeth , Shakespeare links the twin technologies of
print and mechanical time in the familiar soliloquy, to manifest