lemniscate and bicycling

[Scott Badger]

Mary:
> No, I didn't intend to say that mathematically the bicycle track, doesn't
> qualify. It doesn't.
>
> I intended to say that "the pattern left by the two tires, while
> ridden in
> a relatively straight line" doesn't qualify as looking like figure-8's or
> lemniscates. To you and maybe to the "I" of the poem, to Shade and to
> Nabokov, they do look like lemniscates. Different aspects of a
> pattern may
> appeal to different people.

Maybe if you squinted a little....

> Oh. It hadn't occurred to me to consider Shade or Kinbote as the rider.

Just to clarify, I wasn't suggesting Kinbote as the rider of the bicycle,
but as a quite "deftless" (w)ri(t)er.

Scott Badger