<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div id="yiv1264025565"><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><div id="yiv1264025565"><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_16_131932641458950"><div id="yiv1264025565"><div id="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_16_1319286086513143"><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_16_131928608651350" id="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_16_1319286086513144"><div id="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_17_131920254427648" class="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_16_131928608651352" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><div id="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_17_131920254427648" class="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_16_131928608651352 yui_3_2_0_16_131937596123964"><font class="Apple-style-span"
face="Arial">On Wednesday, October 19, 2011 3:11 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo@gmail.com> wrote:</font></div><div id="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_17_131920254427648" class="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_16_131928608651352 yui_3_2_0_16_131937596123964"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div id="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_17_131920254427648" class="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_16_131928608651352 yui_3_2_0_16_131937596123964"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Stephen Hoy <stephenhoy@yahoo.com> wrote:</font></div><div id="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_17_131920254427648" class="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_16_131928608651352 yui_3_2_0_16_131937596123964"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">>> What if a year is actually ten hundred-days? Is there anything in Home Fires</font></div><div id="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_17_131920254427648" class="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_16_131928608651352
yui_3_2_0_16_131937596123964"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">>> that might contradict this metrification?</font></div><div id="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_17_131920254427648" class="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_16_131928608651352 yui_3_2_0_16_131937596123964"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div id="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_17_131920254427648" class="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_16_131928608651352 yui_3_2_0_16_131937596123964"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">>No, but I believe that if they were going to call a thousand days a</font></div><div id="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_17_131920254427648" class="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_16_131928608651352 yui_3_2_0_16_131937596123964"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">>"year," they would've called a hundred days a "month;" contrariwise,</font></div><div id="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_17_131920254427648" class="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_16_131928608651352
yui_3_2_0_16_131937596123964"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">>if they were going to call a hundred days a "hundred-day," they would</font></div><div id="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_17_131920254427648" class="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_16_131928608651352 yui_3_2_0_16_131937596123964"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">>have come up with an appropriate name for a thousand-day. I could, of</font></div><div id="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_17_131920254427648" class="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_16_131928608651352 yui_3_2_0_16_131937596123964"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">>course, be wrong, but I don't think Wolfe would throw in such an</font></div><div id="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_17_131920254427648" class="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_16_131928608651352 yui_3_2_0_16_131937596123964"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">>inconsistency without at least a hint.</font></div><div id="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_17_131920254427648"
class="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_16_131928608651352 yui_3_2_0_16_131937596123964"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div id="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_17_131920254427648" class="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_16_131928608651352 yui_3_2_0_16_131937596123964"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">I agree, an author should give a hint of any change in the definition of a year. The question is whether "hundred-day" is a hint.</font></div><div id="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_17_131920254427648" class="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_16_131928608651352 yui_3_2_0_16_131937596123964"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; "><div id="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_17_131920254427648" class="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_16_131928608651352 yui_3_2_0_16_131937596123964"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">As Dan'l points out, we only have a "hundred-day" in
<i>Home Fires</i>. Where are "ten-day" and "thousand-day"? There's no mention of month but we do find other non-metric time terms like hour, week, and year. However, trying to stretch a week to ten days won't work because Wolfe eliminates the possibility. In Reflection 17 Looking Over a Rail, Skip calculates the wages of the crew: <<What is it the seamen get? The captain told me. Seventy noras a week, so one thousand per hundred-day.>> Ten noras a day, confirming seven days in a week, and an ugly 14.3 weeks per hundred day.</font></div><div id="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_17_131920254427648" class="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_16_131928608651352 yui_3_2_0_16_131937596123964"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; "><div id="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_17_131920254427648" class="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_16_131928608651352
yui_3_2_0_16_131937596123964"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">A search for year = thousand-day (or any other value that appeals) also comes up empty. There's no indication that the number of days in a year has changed. Even time-of-day seems unchanged after a careful re-reading. We fail in any search for a philometric calendar with units of 1, 10, 100, 1000. So why does Wolfe refer so frequently to a "hundred-day"?</font></div><div id="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_17_131920254427648" class="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_16_131928608651352 yui_3_2_0_16_131937596123964"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div id="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_17_131920254427648" class="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_16_131928608651352 yui_3_2_0_16_131937596123964"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Either I'm missing something as a reader, or "hundred-day" is mere window dressing--a sort of fictional condiment like all the food scenes in <i>An Evil
Guest</i>.</font></div><div><br></div></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><div id="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_17_131920254427648" class="yiv1264025565yui_3_2_0_16_131928608651352 yui_3_2_0_16_131937596123964" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br></div></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>