You know—this is amazing, but I swear it’s true—there are people nowadays who literally live in Tokyo "once upon a time." They’re bankers and stockbrokers from New York and London, and they moved to Tokyo as expatriates, because they had to settle the Tokyo time-zone. It’s a fact! Postmodern bankers have to do twenty-four-hour trading, and the stock market closes in New York hours before it opens in London. So nowadays all the big financial operators send people out to major markets all around the world, to colonize Time. "Time" is just another postmodern commodity now.