[Peace-discuss] Venice & misleaders

[C. G. Estabrook]

Ah, maggots - I should have recognized them.  I suppose they're what my post was 
about.

"Maggot" is the title of a new collection by the Irish poet Paul Muldoon, whom 
you may know & like because "his poetry is known for his difficult, sly, 
allusive style, casual use of obscure or archaic words, understated wit, punning..."

On 1/23/11 11:14 AM, E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
> On 1/23/2011 11:12 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>> But I don't get the reference(s) in your last paragraph. Elucidation, please? 
>> --CGE 
> Our delicate minded society is appalled by the notion of decapitations.
> I was suggesting something more pleasant.
>
> Herod and Antiochus Epiphanes (two famous tyrants)
> were said to have died from an infestation of maggots,
> much "gentler" than the brutality of decapitation.
>
> P. regina is the "queen" of maggots often used in medicine.  Lucilia is 
> another genus of maggot also used in medicine, named for the
> preparer of the famously deadly aphrodisiac.  Phormia regina and Lucilia are 
> the black bottle fly and the green bottle fly (respectively) often used in 
> medicinal maggot
> therapy because they can eat away the decayed flesh and cleanse the wounds.  
> It seems that maggot
> therapy would help cleanse the wounds of war.
>
> It gets difficult to distinguish between the men and the maggots.
> Finally the maggot cleansed wound has got to be cleansed of potentially 
> overaggressive maggots.