NPPF: Canto Three: Chron & Analysis Pt 1 of 2

[David Morris]

--- "Vincent A. Maeder" <vmaeder at cyhc-law.com> wrote:
> 
> His first engagement is with IPH at the behest of President McAber.

Although I've used the term a number of times already describing the poem, I
hadn't noticed IPH's president's name until now.

macabre.
 
Main Entry: ma·ca·bre  
Pronunciation: m&-'käb; -'kä-br&, -b&r; -'käbr&
Function: adjective
Etymology: French, from (danse) macabre dance of death, from Middle French
(danse de) Macabré
Date: 1889
1 : having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized
representation of death
2 : dwelling on the gruesome
3 : tending to produce horror in a beholder
synonym see GHASTLY 

> IPH itself is described by Mr. Shade as a "larvorium", a portmanteau word
meaning a place of larva which is a symbol of entropy, death and rebirth

"Larva" and "-orium"

Larva
/"l :v / noun (plural -vae /-vi:/) insect in stage between egg and pupa.

Insect Larvae:
"In some animals, especially insects, larvae represent a special feeding stage
in the life cycle. Some insects pass through more or less wormlike larval
stages, enter the outwardly inactive, or pupal, form, and emerge from the pupal
case as adults (see pupa). The importance of larvae in the life cycle of
insects varies greatly, as does the proportion of the life span spent in
larval, pupal, and adult stages. In many insects, the adult life is relatively
short, consisting mostly of mating and egg laying, while the larvae live for
many months or, in some species, for several years. Insect larvae feed
voraciously, necessarily becoming larger than the adult, as considerable energy
and material are needed for the profound changes made during pupation. For this
reason, insect larvae often cause far more damage to stored crops and textiles
than adult insects.
Insect larvae generally have a thinner exoskeleton than the adult; many are
white and soft. The characteristic fly larvae are maggots, often developing in
decaying plant or animal material. Mosquito larvae are the familiar aquatic
wrigglers; they breathe air and are killed by a thin film of oil on the water
that prevents contact with air. Maggots and wrigglers are legless, as are all
larvae of the insect order Diptera. Beetle larvae, including the whitish forms
called grubs and the long brownish wireworms, are quite diverse, but all are
equipped with the six legs characteristic of adults. Moths and butterflies have
wormlike caterpillars as larvae, each equipped with the six legs characteristic
of adults and false legs known as prolegs to support the long abdominal
section. Some, like the milkweed worm (the larva of the monarch butterfly), are
relatively naked, while other caterpillars are covered by hairy bristles,
sometimes equipped with irritating chemicals that can cause intense itching.
The young of the social insects (bees, ants, wasps, and termites) are legless
but otherwise grublike. Although all social-insect larvae are ultimately
dependent on the parent colony for food, they are considered true larvae
because they pass through a pupal stage."

lemures
 
(l m´ r s´´, –y r z´´) (KEY) , in Roman religion, vampirelike ghosts of the
dead; also called larvae. To exorcise these malevolent spirits from the home,
the Romans held rites, the Lemuria (May 9, 11, 13).


> stating that he is "ready to become a floweret/Or a fat fly" rather than face
eternity without the loves of his life there to greet him. V52.17-53.13/lines
515-536.

More precisely, he wants to *remember* the loves of his life, the people,
images, etc.


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