[Dragaera] More Jhegaala Spoilers -- Analysis of the life stages

[Steve Rapaport]

2008/7/15 Elizabeth Dalton <emdalton at gaeacoop.org>:

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> So, getting back to those stages of jhegaala development... which one looks
> like a toad, do you suppose? The Levidopt? I don't know how that would be a
> "recapitulation," but it wouldn't be especially mobile most of the time,
> which fits with Steve the Younger's thoughts about Nero Wolfe.
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> It looks like the Notonide is the moth-like one... at least, it's the only
> one that mentions wings.
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> Apoptera... some kind of blind tadpole with feelers? I had the impression
> that it swims, but maybe I made that up. I'm not getting much of a visual
> for the Steminastra.
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"Levidopt" sounds like "Lepidoptera",  the genus including moths and
butterflies
Then again, "Apoptera" sounds to me like "Apoptosis", preprogrammed cell
death.
Or even like "Apophenia", the delusionary perception of patterns in random
images or data.  Somewhat like my whole analysis, perhaps.
So who knows?


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>> Part One: (Egg) is the stage where the mother must leave the vulnerable
>> egg
>> alone with a father or father-substitute.
>> Part Two: (Apoptera) is the stage of curious inquisition with all senses,
>> while sight (and insight, by frequent metaphor in the book) is the last to
>> develop.
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>> Part Three: (Steminastra) is the Jhegaala's vulnerable yet reckless stage.
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>> Part Four: (Notonide) is the Jhegaala's fast adolescence, a period of high
>> vulnerability, intense and rapid physical transformation, development of
>> wings and venom glands, and yet the Jhegaala is "never so much *itself* as
>> when under intense pressure".
>> Part Five: (Levidopt) is both a state of maturity and a recapitulation of
>> the previous developments.
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\Steve