NPPF - Canto Two Notes (2)

[David Morris]

318:  “cygnet/woodduck”
Sarcastic lament.  The cygnet is also known as the “ugly duckling” AKA baby
swan.  But Hazel never even turns into a common duck, let alone a swan.

370:  “Grim Pen”
Prison cell?  Also a swamp/bog (where hazel ends up):  see Jasper’s earlier
note.

373:  “chthonic”
Main Entry: chthon·ic  
Pronunciation: 'thä-nik 
Function: adjective
Etymology: Greek chthon-, chthOn earth -- 
: of or relating to the underworld : INFERNAL <chthonic deities>

"Driven by dæmonic, chthonic Powers." --T.S. Eliot

375:  “sempiternal”
Main Entry: sem·pi·ter·nal  
Pronunciation: "sem-pi-'t&r-n&l
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin sempiternalis, from Latin
sempiternus, from semper ever, always, from sem- one, same (akin to Old Norse
samr same) + per through 
Date: 15th century
: of never-ending duration : ETERNAL

*Side Note:  Does this asking for word meanings remind anyone of Ulysses?

384:  “book on Pope”
http://members.aol.com/basfawlty/pope.htm
“Any successful writer is bound to make enemies simply by succeeding. Of
course, Pope’s imprudence in making reflections in the Essay on Criticism on
John Dennis, a critic with more than the usual choler who was apparently
somewhat paranoid, probably contributed to Dennis’ wild attacks on him for many
years thereafter. To Dennis, not only were the poems of Pope utterly worthless,
but Pope’s religion, parentage, and personal deformity (e.g., "As there is no
Creature so venomous, there is nothing so stupid and impotent as a hunch-back’d
Toad"{14}) were assaulted in a manner that it would be too kind to excuse as
senile lunacy. Further attacks followed after the Odyssey debacle and Lewis
Theobald’s exposure of Pope’s careless editing of Shakespeare--the latter to
some extent justified, though Theobald plainly wrote with malice and
self-aggrandizement in mind. “

401:  “Lochanhead”  
“Loch”  noun Scottish lake or narrow inlet of the sea.
A town in southern Scotland.  

450:  “famous film, ‘Remorse’” 

This below doesn't seem correct.  Any other ideas?

http://users.chariot.net.au/~rjnoye/Film/Films_sa.htm
The film was first screened at the Wondergraph Theatre in Adelaide on 3 January
1917, and while the fact that about forty local people were in the cast may
have been a drawcard, the main attraction was no doubt the fact that the film
was restricted to adults and that there was, by the standards of the time,
something suggestive about the film’s subject and its advertising. The subject
of the film was syphilis, the venereal disease that was referred to in public
only as The Red Plague.
The day after the premiere the Adelaide Register gave an outline of the plot of
Remorse. ‘The story deals with the adventures of Jack Rundle (Mr Cyril Mackay),
who works on a station, and learns to love Nellie Fallon, his father's ward
(Miss Mabel Dyson). When he leaves the station to go to the city on business it
is not long before he is tempted into associating with dangerous society. After
he has been in the city for some time he realises that he has ruined his life
and returns, a sorrowful and downcast man, to his home. But from his father’s
household he finds himself an outcast. When, after several year’s absence, he
again returns to his old home, he finds that the faithful Ted Rundle, his
brother, has married Nellie Fallon. Once more he wanders away and a dramatic
end is reached when the unfortunate victim of the undercurrent of society takes
his own life, and thus concludes a worthless career.’





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