maru dubshinki wrote:
On 8/15/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
maru dubshinki wrote:
On 8/15/06, charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
"maru dubshinki" wrote
In comparison to normal human writing, this stuff's positively antipodean.
That would be why Gerard goes for it. I hear their screens scroll the other way, Down Under.
Charles
He would. There's a reason Dante located the exit of Hell and the mountain of Purgatory in the Southern Hemisphere...
Hmmm! Dante (1265-1321), Galileo (1564-1642). ;-)
Ec
Are you accusing me of not knowing my Dante?
"The two poets escape by climbing the ragged fur of Lucifer, passing through the center of the earth, emerging in the southern hemisphere just before dawn on Easter Sunday beneath a sky studded with stars." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Comedy#Purgatorio
~maru
I hadn't thought of it as an accusation, but if you want to take it that way you have that option.
There is considerable doubt that Dante's reference to the other hemisphere is to the southern one. That strikes me as inconsistent with the state of geographical knowledge in the early 14th centure. The suggestion that Dante's exit from hell would be in Antarctica has not basis in fact at ball. Where in the text do you find evidence for this. Antarctica was not discovered until much later.
Ec