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Flesh-eating flies (blowflies) have genus Sarcophaga and family
Sarcophagidae!
Sorry to bring gross subjests but I was not one who started this
queue...these are maggots, of course, not flies that eat dead flesh, and
those are of course also the classical "worms" (that dine on Polonius
etc.)
Adult Larva (maggot), head end
Well, at least they are NOT parasites. And while we are on the subject,
here are parasitic BOTFLIES (Oestridae), in Russian "Ovod"
Maggot
Adult
I am not sure anybody made connection of Botfly to Ovod yet.
But "Ovod" in Russian is also the title of the famous "Gadfly" (1897)
by Ethel Voynich, incredibly popular in Russia (a Soviet film with a
Shostakovich score was made), about Garibaldi insurgency in Italy, main
hero modeled after Herzen's firend Mazzini. English "gadfly" is a
generic term for both Oestridae (botflies) and Tabanidae (horseflies,
Russ. slepni). Nabokov has a good discussion of those insects
Chernyshevsky chapter of "Dar".Gadfly was also sent by Hera to torment
Io when the latter was turned into a white heifer.
I am not sure anybody commented on this yet but Botkin is a famous
Russian historical name, Vasily Botkin (Botkine), son of a famous tea
merchant, was a well-known Russian Westernized "estethe", literary
critic, contributor to "Sovremennik" , firend of Turgenev and Belinsky.
His brother Sergei was a famous physician (Botkin Hospital in St
Petersburg is named over him), and their sister Maria married my famous
namesake, Afanasiy Fet -- the only writer who saw butterflies (VN).
Another doctor, Evgeny Botkin (same family??) was family physician to
Nicholas II family, murdered with the latter. This could be a shortcut
to regicide theme so central to Pale Fire?
Victor Fet
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From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU] On
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Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 12:54 PM
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Subject: [NABOKV-L] sarcophagus
Dear Jansy,
Again I must apologize - - you were asking about the meanging of
sarco- not -phagus as I clumsily managed to confuse.
Your guess is correct. The Greek word for flesh is indeed sarka.
Carolyn
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Sarcophagidae!
Sorry to bring gross subjests but I was not one who started this
queue...these are maggots, of course, not flies that eat dead flesh, and
those are of course also the classical "worms" (that dine on Polonius
etc.)
Adult Larva (maggot), head end
Well, at least they are NOT parasites. And while we are on the subject,
here are parasitic BOTFLIES (Oestridae), in Russian "Ovod"
Maggot
Adult
I am not sure anybody made connection of Botfly to Ovod yet.
But "Ovod" in Russian is also the title of the famous "Gadfly" (1897)
by Ethel Voynich, incredibly popular in Russia (a Soviet film with a
Shostakovich score was made), about Garibaldi insurgency in Italy, main
hero modeled after Herzen's firend Mazzini. English "gadfly" is a
generic term for both Oestridae (botflies) and Tabanidae (horseflies,
Russ. slepni). Nabokov has a good discussion of those insects
Chernyshevsky chapter of "Dar".Gadfly was also sent by Hera to torment
Io when the latter was turned into a white heifer.
I am not sure anybody commented on this yet but Botkin is a famous
Russian historical name, Vasily Botkin (Botkine), son of a famous tea
merchant, was a well-known Russian Westernized "estethe", literary
critic, contributor to "Sovremennik" , firend of Turgenev and Belinsky.
His brother Sergei was a famous physician (Botkin Hospital in St
Petersburg is named over him), and their sister Maria married my famous
namesake, Afanasiy Fet -- the only writer who saw butterflies (VN).
Another doctor, Evgeny Botkin (same family??) was family physician to
Nicholas II family, murdered with the latter. This could be a shortcut
to regicide theme so central to Pale Fire?
Victor Fet
________________________________
From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU] On
Behalf Of Carolyn Kunin
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 12:54 PM
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Subject: [NABOKV-L] sarcophagus
Dear Jansy,
Again I must apologize - - you were asking about the meanging of
sarco- not -phagus as I clumsily managed to confuse.
Your guess is correct. The Greek word for flesh is indeed sarka.
Carolyn
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