Thomas Chan scripsit: > And it is 4701 or 4700?--the only thing that is certain is that it is the > guiwei year of the sixty-year "cycle of Cathay".
So that line of Tennyson's only meant that Europe did things 6/5 as fast as China? I interpreted "cycle" in that context to mean a century (cf. French), giving a 2:1 ratio. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --_The Hobbit_
