NPPF - Foreword - Notes (1)

[Paul Mackin]

On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 10:44, Jasper Fidget wrote:
> I've added some terms from Toby G. Levy's post.  All the definitions are
> taken from the most recent edition of the OED unless otherwise noted.


VN's favorite dictionary was supposed to have been Webster's Second
International. Anybody got an old copy lying around. I've only got the
Third International.


    . . . . 

> 
> Page 13:
> A poem in four cantos, a parody of Eliot's Four Quartets. 


Might it be an antidote to Eliot rather than a parody?

Something for people who like a coherent story and good rhymes?

Is Eliot still revered today as he was in the 50s. 



 But Shade is a
> Pope scholar, so Pope's Dunciad, a poem in four books with a preface, the
> poem, a commentary and notes.
> 
> Page 13:
> Birds: Shade's parents were ornithologists (ln 72)
> waxwing(1), pheasant(24), grouse(25), mockingbird(63), etc
> 
> Page 13:
> A parhelion is a bright spot on a solar halo (parhelic circle) caused by ice
> crystals in the atmosphere.  Parhelia can be colorful (resembling a rainbow,
> for which there are other references in PF) and symmetrically spaced.  


For what it's worth the Third International adds "also called mock sun,
sun dog.

P.