Line 22: "Woden that expain a Lot, now, about Morma and her Gorgo?"
Non-Lucy-Lips Version: "Wouldn't that explain a lot, now, about Momma and her Giorgio?"
"Woden"
Why bring up Odin? Perhaps because he had many children by different wives thus mirroring the possibility that Nora had children by different men. Or perhaps this is a hint at an intimate relationship between mother and son as well, as Odin married at least one of his own daughters.
"expain"
The entire thing caused a lot of pain.
"Lot"
Lot slept with his daughters. So I think maybe I know why Odin was mentioned! Although Lot was drunk so I guess The Bible says it's not too big a deal if you get drunk and allow your daughters to seduce you because they've just seen two cities destroyed and surely no other men survived those two cities being destroyed so they kind of had to fuck their dad, right?
"Morma"
According to Wikipedia, "The original Mormo was a woman of Corinth, who ate her children then flew out; according to an account only attested in a single source." I respect Alan Moore's esoteric knowledge enough to believe he probably read that single source first hand. Anyway, "Morma" is probably a combination of "Mormo" and "ma" (but maybe not?!). Mormo could also equate to being a bugbear or a bogeyman used to frighten children.
"Gorgo"
Giorgio but perhaps with a reference to Gorgons? If this is meant to reference Gorgons, is it meant simply to refer back to Nora as the Mormo does, meaning she's a frightening monster? "Gorgos" is also an Ancient Greek word that means "grim or dreadful," thus it invokes the same idea as "Gorgon" but in a less gendered way. To Lucia, Giorgio was probably grim and dreadful because of the acts he performed on her. Another possibility: "Gorgos" was a British Thoroughbred racehorse in the Edwardian Era. Initially successful, he was quickly retired and became a successful breeding stud for many years. His mother (mare) was named The Gorgon which works well here in that it fixes all the problems I had with transferring the idea of "Gorgon" to Nora.
Non-Lucy-Lips Version: "Wouldn't that explain a lot, now, about Momma and her Giorgio?"
"Woden"
Why bring up Odin? Perhaps because he had many children by different wives thus mirroring the possibility that Nora had children by different men. Or perhaps this is a hint at an intimate relationship between mother and son as well, as Odin married at least one of his own daughters.
"expain"
The entire thing caused a lot of pain.
"Lot"
Lot slept with his daughters. So I think maybe I know why Odin was mentioned! Although Lot was drunk so I guess The Bible says it's not too big a deal if you get drunk and allow your daughters to seduce you because they've just seen two cities destroyed and surely no other men survived those two cities being destroyed so they kind of had to fuck their dad, right?
"Morma"
According to Wikipedia, "The original Mormo was a woman of Corinth, who ate her children then flew out; according to an account only attested in a single source." I respect Alan Moore's esoteric knowledge enough to believe he probably read that single source first hand. Anyway, "Morma" is probably a combination of "Mormo" and "ma" (but maybe not?!). Mormo could also equate to being a bugbear or a bogeyman used to frighten children.
"Gorgo"
Giorgio but perhaps with a reference to Gorgons? If this is meant to reference Gorgons, is it meant simply to refer back to Nora as the Mormo does, meaning she's a frightening monster? "Gorgos" is also an Ancient Greek word that means "grim or dreadful," thus it invokes the same idea as "Gorgon" but in a less gendered way. To Lucia, Giorgio was probably grim and dreadful because of the acts he performed on her. Another possibility: "Gorgos" was a British Thoroughbred racehorse in the Edwardian Era. Initially successful, he was quickly retired and became a successful breeding stud for many years. His mother (mare) was named The Gorgon which works well here in that it fixes all the problems I had with transferring the idea of "Gorgon" to Nora.
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