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   "Cuddly"  wrote in message   
   news:bhnmpe$ssa$1@news8.svr.pol.co.uk...   
   > Bunge wrote:   
   > > For are not so sharp friends I think I should simplify that somewhat.   
   > >   
   > Thank-you..   
   >   
   > > Virgil gives a description of Fortune which involves the first hints   
   > > of Dante's neo-Platonic view of a hierarchical power unit, with power   
   > > emanating from the cylinder block and penetrating outwards to all   
   > > parts of the engine. His thinking stemmed from reading Boethius'   
   > > Consolation of Philosophy, and other works. This hierarchy is   
   > > symbolically reversed in the gear train in the descent to the back   
   > > axle, while the re-ascent to the cylinder block is imitated in the   
   > > amount of ''Purgatory'' produced by the engine. This concept of   
   > > circles or spheres, contracting to, or expanding from the cylinders   
   > > is a major feature of Dante's and the Medieval imagination.   
   > >   
   > bet your brain hurts now.   
      
   Mine does.   
      
   > > ''Bospho's Concise Dictionary for the Advanced Wordy'' ( On offer   
   > > this week £59.99 at Grundy Bookshops) gives a clear definition of   
   > > ''purgatory'' as follows:   
   > >   
   > How much?i'll go buy a new table instead.   
   >   
   > > So friends, there we are, an often used noun, but rarely fully   
   > > understood.   
   > >   
   > That has made our day complete.   
   >   
   > > Goodbye.   
   > >   
   > > Sister Bunge   
   > >   
   > > Housekeeper to Canon O' Fodder.c/o loonie bin.   
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