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The point which Kuhn brings out particularly in his consideration of attempts to translate between phlogistonic and 'modern' chemistry is this: that not even long 'paraphrases' or complicated multiple uses of symbols can be usefully said to 'capture', to translate, phlogistonic chemistry: 'We have not only to say that phlogiston sometimes referred to hydrogen and sometimes to absorption of oxygen, but we have to convey the whole ontology of phlogiston in order to make plausible why it was taken to be a single natural kind.'

This self-destructive act of autosodomy is the most powerful symbol in the novel for what is the essence of Cela's judgement on the Civil War: the sterile orgasm of a perverted national psyche.