[Peace-discuss] Venice & misleaders

[E. Wayne Johnson]

I am not familiar with Paul Muldoon but I see that he has a website and 
several .mp3s there
so i can remedy this deficit.

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There is among maggots a sort of continuum of purpose and utility.

Some are purely saprophytic which means they feed only on decaying 
organic matter
not just on "saps" as the cognate might suggest.
At the other end of the spectrum are the purely pathogenic maggots
like Cochliomyia hominivorax.  Cochliomyia refers to the way the maggot
twists its waydeeply into the living flesh, while hominivorax does not 
imply that they
eat hominy.

In between the saprophytes and the parasites lie the commensals, which
although not as aggressive as the pathogenic larvae, nevertheless
can be found to be working in dead ernest.

Sort of like the difference between Hawks and Buzzards, with
vultures and eagles occupying a somewhat fuzzier spot in the continuum.

So then we have hawks and mawks,  mawkish, mawky, mawkier, mawkiest.


On 1/24/2011 2:37 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> 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.
>
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