At 16:40 -0600 02/09/3, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >There is in Korean mythology a famous >measuring unit that denotes a era long period of time. To gauge how long >that period is, one is asked to imagine a mountain made of solid granite, >exactly one mile high. Once every thousand years an angel flies down from >heaven and brushes the summit of the hill with her wings. The unit of time >represents the number of years it would take for the angel and her >summit-brushing wing to erode the mountain down to sea level.
I am native from South of France (Provence). People there use colored images to qualify a number of things. For example, when referring to an exceptionally lengthy period of time, they say "It is as long as killing a donkey with watermelons". When you know how strong is a donkey's skull and how soft a watermelon... Louis
