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

[Tim Owen]

>Or even like "Apophenia", the delusionary perception of patterns in random
>images or data.
 
Now that is fascinating because it almost perfectly describes Vlad's hallucinatory state immediately following The Working of the healing spell:
 
"edges are fuzzy...and texturing mover and shifts.  There are some witches who believe that in this state you can see profound states that are normally concealed "

--- On Mon, 7/14/08, Steve Rapaport <steve at romlin.com> wrote:

From: Steve Rapaport <steve at romlin.com>
Subject: Re: [Dragaera] More Jhegaala Spoilers -- Analysis of the life stages
To: dragaera at lists.dragaera.info
Date: Monday, July 14, 2008, 7:18 PM

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.
>>
>> Part Three: (Steminastra) is the Jhegaala's vulnerable yet
reckless stage.
>>
>> 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
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