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an axiom upon which the elastic proof rests: in an appropriate paradoxical structure each point is a metaphor for each other point, all points having in common that they are some aspect of the center point : virgilius maro: virgilius grammaticus was fond of meaningful names: 'maro' anagrammatically is 'roma', which is one character removed from 'rosa' and also 'rota' : 'roma', 'rosa' and 'rota' being the isomorphic points at hand : the name meanings of 'rosa' and 'roma' are encoded together, eco: stat pristina rosa: variously translated as 'yesterday's rome' and 'yesterday's rose' : and the name meanings of 'rosa' and 'rota' are encoded together at the cathedral at amiens: emile mâle: the upper half of the exterior of the rose window on the south porch is surrounded by a depiction of the rota fortunae with seventeen figures, eight ascending, eight descending and fortune herself at the top in the middle : description of the rota fortunae by boethius : georges poulet, in a footnote in an essay regarding dante and the fearful sphere, mentions that in De Consolatione 'Boethius compares the peripheral mobility of Fate with the central fixity of Providence' (schopenhauer: 'a man can do as he wills, but not determine what it is that he wills') : boethius' description of the rota fortunae is also synchronous with dante's metaphors on currency [meta122]