The moist dissociation chamber is second only to saunas for washing away the anxieties of the day, I think

Yeah 100% - that passage is from Orpheus and Eurydice and there sure is something in that tale (and its variants) about the inevitability of death and the suffering wrought by refusing to accept it.

Literally just got out of an exam on Ovid and have been thinking the memento mori must have a moment again. "paulumque morati serius aut citius sedem properamus ad unam" - we, delayed but a little, are all hastening sooner or later to the same place.

Welcome, we imported some wind from Welly today, just for you

Seems tied up with the ideas of phonaesthetics and sound symbolism? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonaes... Maybe it's the "gr-o" being associated with words like gross, grody, grotesque - like the "gro-" is a phonaestheme loaded with meanings of disgust

Do they n-ink? Is there positional information? Do different cultures of the species have different winding orders?

Chuds, unfortunately