EDNote: if I receive any further
refinements on the high v. low German geographical distribution, I'll save them
and post them together in a single "issue" sometime Friday.
~SB
JM: Heavens! (or should I exclaim:
Hell?)... "Was oben ist muss drunten
stehn", a beer-song I thought represented a Medieval
conception of correspondence bt. Heaven and Earth. After Old
Enricht's pose I began to think differently. Up and down, high or low,
Hoch or Platt according to Juan, it remains hard to make heads or tails of
all that enquiry: "Looking, for just one moment,
of the wrong shape,/ the world lands catlike, on all/ its four feet at once, and
now stands/ familiar both to the mind and the eye".
In KQKn (recomended abbreviation) there is a mention
to "Moritz and Max", two aides that prop up the
Inventor's careening automannekins ( gravity, you know).
Before turning into Katzenjammer kids,"Max und Moritz" were
simply obnoxious little boys described and drawn by the German
poet Wilhelm Busch.
Victor Fet, thanks for the very informed biologist's
reply:
"odon(t-, to-)" means "tooth" in Greek (equivalent
to Latinate "dens", "dent-") . Yes, of course! Dentists practice
Odontology.
You added:
"Order Odonata (Russ. strekozy, Engl. Damsel- and
Dragonflies) are indeed named so because of their robust mandibles
(jaws)...Whether Odon of PF has any "tooth" relevance I do not know, but "Odon"
is Swedish (and surely in Zemblan as well) for Vaccinium uliginosum, the
Northern Bilberry, Russ. Golubika."...
from which the
French make their delicious "Liqueur de Cassis"often appreciated by
the sweet two-toothed Scalloped Hazel (Odontopera bidentata)
- or one of that crowd. So I take it that, contrary to what
happened with Mrs.Kamelspinner, Odon's name ( one of Sylvia o'Donnell's
sons) was not also an allusion to a Demoiselle airplane, nor did
it arise from "a corruption of 'Odeon' ".
Besides, since
the Coxcomb Prominent "is a free-living moth, it has
nothing to do with a "moth" which could be eating Dreyer's camel-wool
coat."(But why did VN go into such detail about Dreyer's
coat?) - in
short, you advise me not to stretch VN's words...
I hope SB
will allow me once again to tell a face-saving joke, inspired by
two Schultze's characters and a butterfly:
Lucy van der
Pelt was teaching her precocious brother everything about insect
migration. She showed him a yellow spot in the distance and explained that
these yellow butterflies migrated all the way up from South America.When they
came closer they saw it was actually a crisp potato chip lying on
the ground.
Lucy then added: "I wonder how that potato chip managed to
fly all the way over from South America."
( I know, I know... Odon isn't a potato chip either)