“He was writing at the peak of the Roman empire. Roads were everywhere, bureaucracy was everywhere, there were issues of class, people were more literate and technology was changing the world. This has obvious parallels with various times in human history, and certainly with now. Back then it was shepherdesses and goatherds. So why not now focus on the internal combustion engine, and why not set it in a garage and make this a sort of working-class love story?”
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