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["John E. Clifford" <pcliffje@CRL.COM>]

I can't recommend reading Fennimore Cooper (see Mark Twain's lit crit),
but I just noticed that he does a lot of using time markers for space: a
place is two days away and the like.  We could unpack this, of course, to
"the distance we could walk in two days" or some such, but that seems
unnecessary -- except that not doing so means we need tensor markers for
both time and space, not just a single one for both. Out side of physics,
I don't know of a case of using spatial terms for times.   But I also
thought of the now virtually impenetrable "Bogies at 10:30 high" which is
an overt time reference for a _vector_(!) "Enemy aircraft about 45
degrees left of straight ahead and more than 30 degrees (I think it is --
you have to look up anyhow) above level"  More evidence for a needed
spatial vector marker that takes sumti for the direction, not the origin
(but how do we say the origin in that case?).
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