Line 109:  iridule

 

And iridescent cloudlet, Zemblan muderperlwelk.  The term “iridule” is, I believe, Shade’s own invention.  Above it, in the Fair Copy (card 9, July 4) he has written in pencil “peacock-herl.”  The peacock-herl is the body of a certain sort of artificial fly also called “alder.”  So the owner of this motor court, an ardent fisherman, tells me.  (See also the “strange nacreous gleams” in line 634.)

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