<HTML>I know, I know, I shouldn't have asked ... I regret it already ... And I'm not gonna contemplate what you're pointing at ... it'll give me a serious headache ...
But, please forgive me for being so immature ... How do you get to the conclusion that them 8,503 seconds have to be doubled? It's only playing with numbers. Anything can be fixed to your own liking if you're allowed to multiply, divide, add and subtract. And to double 8,503 don't give you 17,000 ... If the opera is played in 2 hours, 21 mins and 43 secs then it is of that length, not 3 seconds shorter, because it suits a number-magicians calculation to find a Serpent or something like that ... And later you need them 3 seconds anyway to get to Horus ... So what is it gonna be? 8,503 seconds or 8,500 seconds? You can't have both ...
) Paul, al-Urman</HTML>