XXIV/4 As in Canto XVI/1 the original Golden Section Lily has been subject to computerised distortion. These are more extreme variants from the graphics computer at Leicester Polytechnic. They serve to represent, according to the misty prophecies of Vanni Fucci (nicknamed 'the Beast' and himself an extremist of the Black Guelph faction) the fates of the Black and White Guelph parties. The Whites suffer the greater distortion in the fall of their fortunes while the more recognisable Black lily seems to float higher. The original drawing was, so to speak, wrapped around itself in an imaginary space by the computer which made more possible the airborne aspect of the emblems as they participate in Vanni Fucci's strange shrouded meteorological predictions, so darkly turbulent. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.