Sort of off topic, but this business of going around in circles reminded me of a stunning passage I recently read from the book
Eternal Hell by Fr Francois Chazal. (
https://ca-rc.com/eternal-hell ) I quote verbatim from p. 225:
What Do You Do in Hell?One day the exorcist asked the Devil, “What do you do in hell?” and the
reply was preternatural: “In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni,” “
Wego in circles by night, and we are consumed by fire.”
Only an angelic intelligence could come up immediately with this
verse, because not only the Latin versification and rhythm is perfect,
and the word “igni” is the poetic form of “igne;” but what is admirable
is that every single leer matches its symmetrical opposite. The first “I”
matches the last “I,” the second “N” matches the last “N,” and so on. We
don’t know any poetry of this kind:
→
INGIRVMIMVSNOCTEETCONSVMIMVRIGNI ←
The text can be read in both directions, from left to right, and the
letters form concentric circles, just as the narrative describes a nightful
going around in circles.