From: mbottorff@lshelby.com   
      
   David E. Siegel (siegel@acm.org)  wrote:   
      
   >   
   > But then, hours are a quite old concept, nor are they tied to a particular   
   > astronomical feature.  I wouldn't feel drastically upset to read of an   
   > "hour" in a work set on another world, indeed rather less by an 'hour"   
   > than by a "mile" or a "meter", I think.   
      
   I use hours in Cantata and Pavane.  Just not in the stories set in   
   Racciman's World -- 'cause I'm just weird that way, I guess.   
      
   Okay, no, actually it's because I think of Cantata and Pavane as having   
   been written in some other language, and I'm translating.  So I would   
   have translated whatever they actually use into hours.   
      
   But I don't think of the Racciman's World stories as being translations.   
      
      
      
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