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From: Bill East <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 17:39:08 BST
Subject: Re: Saints on trains
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On Wed, 14 Aug 1996 11:35:47 GMT Mark Harris wrote:
> From: Mark Harris <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 11:35:47 GMT
> Subject: Saints on trains
> To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask]
>
> Sorry, folks, but I think that the latter part of my posting was
> flushed (though I'm sure I typed it in).
>
> The second question was which saint(s) is/are most appropriate to
> railway travel, other than St Christopher? No prizes for guessing
> Pancras or Dominic de la Calzada (who might be invoked by the
> track and signal-owning body). Curious, isn't it, that the feast day
> of both these saints falls on 12 May?
>
> Mark
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> "The reason of a thing is not to bee inquired after till you are
> sure the thing it selfe bee soe. Wee comonly are att *What's
> the reason of it?* before wee are sure of the thing."
>
> John Selden (1584-1654), _Table Talk_
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I refer the honourable member to my reply to his earlier question. Oriens.
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