NPPF: CANTO ONE (1)

[David Morris]

---Charles:
> 
> Iridule - curiously this word makes neither the OED, nor Websters.........."
a rainbow reflected in a cloud from a thunderstorm in a distant valley "

This definition is from the words in the poem?  I guess it's a made-up word
combining "irridescent" with the diminutive "ule."  I think the poem suggests
it is in a droplet of water.

> Lemniscate - (OED) [lemniscotus - adorned with ribbons] The designation of
certain closed curves having a general resemblance to the figure 8.

As Kinbote comments, it's hard to figure out what this figure has to do with a
bicycle (but the image of two circles being connected (and an important sight
of bicycle wheels) will recur a number of times further into the text in
significant ways).  Of course this is the infinity symbol.  It is also closely
related to the two-winged creature "infinite past, infinite future" just a few
lines down, where the individual occupies the intersction of the tewo realms. 
I vaguely remember  reading something about N's concept of time being like
this...

David Morris

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