the Enfield geography: the sun sets on deLint's schedule

A small emblem of the regimen's dominion over time: the sun goes down "fifteen minutes to the nanosecond after deLint turns on the courts' high-tower lights." The institution's clockwork is so total that even the day appears to defer to the practice schedule — the lights come up and the sun, on cue, obliges. The joke lands the academy's control as near-cosmic: the body's training day doesn't fit itself to daylight; daylight seems to keep the courts' hours.