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According to Handel (1988), the analogy space: time:: vision: audition is seductive but misleading: we cannot" imagine a visual or auditory event that is nonspatial or atemporal"(Handel, 1988, p. 315); this statement either begs the question or is false. He claims that people mentally transform space and time in both modalities; I argue that we never mentally transform auditory space but often transpose in pitch and translate in time. Handel claims that all other" modality translation," including my theory of indispensable attributes (space-time: pitch-time:: vision: audition)," are possible and relevant"(p. 316) and that theoretical commitment on this matter is unnecessary; I reject this tolerance. I show that the analogy rejected by Handel is partly true:(a) Space is the province of vision.(b) Vision is not inherently temporal.(c) Audition is intimately tied to time.(d) Audition is not inherently spatial. These statements are implied by …