Though it was still bright, many of the colorfully plumed birds had already sought their nests.
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Here and there swarms of night insects began to stir, lifting themselves under the leaves of bushes by the road.
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The shadows of the pasang stones had grown long, and, judging by the angle of these shadows, for the stones are set in such a way as to serve also as sundials, it was past the fourteenth Gorean ahn, or hour.
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The Gorean day is divided into twenty ahn, which are numbered consecutively.
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The tenth ahn is noon, the twentieth, midnight.
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Each ahn consists of forty Ehn, or minutes, and each Ehn of eighty Ihn, or seconds.
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I wondered if it would be practical to continue my journey.
Though it was still bright, many of the colorfully plumed birds had already sought their nests.
Here and there swarms of night insects began to stir, lifting themselves under the leaves of bushes by the road.
The shadows of the pasang stones had grown long, and, judging by the angle of these shadows, for the stones are set in such a way as to serve also as sundials, it was past the fourteenth Gorean ahn, or hour.
The Gorean day is divided into twenty ahn, which are numbered consecutively.
The tenth ahn is noon, the twentieth, midnight.
Each ahn consists of forty Ehn, or minutes, and each Ehn of eighty Ihn, or seconds.
I wondered if it would be practical to continue my journey.
- (Outlaw of Gor, Chapter )