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  • perihelion: the point in a planet's orbit when it is closest to the Sun → rings round them
    • peri hÄ“lioi: (Greek) around the Sun
    • gang: (German) going; motion
  • Tim Healy: Irish political figure; opponent of Charles Stewart Parnell
  • gongs: reminiscent of the sound of a bell gonging to mark the passage of time