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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/1036",
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  "thread": {
    "id": 1036,
    "subject": "Aquastor",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-08-02T17:37:08+00:00",
    "last": "1998-08-04T08:34:21+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0017-0077@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "mary whalen",
        "address": "marewhalen at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-08-02T17:37:08+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Aquastor",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "text": "This is Sean Whalen (prion).\n\nI got the information from irdg.com/mep/nni/golem.txt. It is copyright\n1992, Dan McClure.  Additional information can be found in Gustav\nMeyerink's \"The Golem\", according to the page.\n\nI'm looking in various books and searching the web for more\ninformation and confirmation in the appropriate places.  If anyone\nwants to help, I'd appreciate it.\n\nprion"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0017-0081@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "mary whalen",
        "address": "marewhalen at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-08-03T10:59:21+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Aquastor",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0017-0077@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
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          "text": "This is Sean Whalen (prion).\n\nI still haven't found any other information about aquastors, but I\nthink it's possible that the name comes from quasi, meaning almost as\nif.  This would be because of an aquastor's artificial nature in\nmimicking something.\n\nprion"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0017-0082@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "mary whalen",
        "address": "marewhalen at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-08-04T08:34:21+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Aquastor",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0017-0081@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
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          "text": "This is Sean Whalen (prion).\n\nI've been thinking about from where the name aquastor could come, and\nsince it's an alchemical term, it might be Arabic.  The original form\nmight be something like al quastr.  Also, if it is Latin, it might be\nfrom acu- (sharp) or aequus (equal), as well as from quasi, aqua, or\nquaerere.\n\nprion"
        }
      ]
    }
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