MDMD(2): Notes and Questions

[dennis grace]

Just a couple of observations on these observations:

>     55.36  `Pollywogs' literally = tadpoles

Well, yeah, duh.  Pollywogs as in initiates into the order of shellbacks
(i.e.--sailors who've crossed the equator) "the poor bastards the shellbacks
get to demoralize, torture, and just generally humiliate when they cross the
equator."  Been there; done that.

>     60.17  `Jethro's tent' ???

Yeah, you know, the guy in the wilderness with the seven daughters and no
available men, where Moses stayed when he wandered out of the wilderness.
Come one, I can understand missing a biblical reference, but you had to've
seen _The Ten Commandments_.

>     61.5  `mu' its that character again, and it means mercy!

In most physics applications, isn't mu a factor of logarithmic attenuation
or amplification?

>     65.4  `Austra' Auster = South Wind in Latin. Austra might be a female 
>     variant but would probably mean `of the south' or `southern'.

Yah.  Pretty blatant.  Vroom means "faith."  Austra is the south.  And look
what the Dutch faith is doing to the south.

>     68.14  `pomegranate' symbolic of sex

Also symbolic of sexual entrapment and release.  Persephone gets
emprisoned/freed based on the number of seeds she's consumed.

dgg
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English Department
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