Home Fires questions

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 19 Oct 2011, 20:11 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:11:49 -0700
Subject: (urth) Home Fires questions
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On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Stephen Hoy <stephenhoy at yahoo.com> wrote:

> What if a year is actually ten hundred-days? Is there anything in Home Fires
> that might contradict this metrification?

No, but I believe that if they were going to call a thousand days a
"year," they would've called a hundred days a "month;" contrariwise,
if they were going to call a hundred days a "hundred-day," they would
have come up with an appropriate name for a thousand-day. I could, of
course, be wrong, but I don't think Wolfe would throw in such an
inconsistency without at least a hint.

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes

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