DOORS: lunar months

Michael Andre-Driussi · 21 Jan 2003, 14:31 · from urth-v0301.mbox · original

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From: Michael Andre-Driussi <mantis at siriusfiction.com>
Subject: (urth) DOORS: lunar months
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 06:31:21 -0800
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David Duffy quoted me and wrote:
>> Another datapoint is Laura Nomos (nomos means "a lawed one," i.e., a
>> lawyer!) and her fur coat in storage for 26 months (169).  This suggests
>> 790 (days) / 8.25 (O-time multiple) =3D 96 days (3 months).  (I don't kn=
ow,
>> but wouldn't storage be usually for longer than that?  Maybe not: maybe
>> storage is only for Summer?)
>
>Not having read TAD, are we perhaps talking lunar months here?

Probably.  If the question is "what number(s) am I using for a month in
these figurings," I've been pretty lax -- sometimes using 28 days, often
using 30 days.

No, wait: if the Otherworld months were strictly lunar, then there would be
13 months to their calendar -- we have no direct evidence of this.

=3Dmantis=3D



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