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  "export": {
    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/1395",
    "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it.  Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.",
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  "archive": "urth",
  "thread": {
    "id": 1395,
    "subject": "What's in a name?",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1999-02-25T14:23:21+00:00",
    "last": "1999-02-26T00:35:32+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0024-0012@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan Parmenter",
        "address": "dan at lec.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-02-25T14:23:21+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) What's in a name?",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "From: \"Kevin J. Maroney\" <kmaroney at crossover.com>\n(Remember that most/all of the animal species of Urth except humans were\ndriven extinct at some point in the past, and the animals present in the\nBook are alien replacements which approximate the original species.\nDestriers aren't horses, they're alien horse-like beings. This is an\ninversion of the standard sf cliche where an alien world is populated by\nexotic creatures which are actually just cows and bunnies with different\nnames; here the Earth is populated by alien species which are *like* cows\nand bunnies.)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "By the first rule of Wolfean naming (\"everything is exactly what it\nsays it is\") is it fair then to assume that Triskele is indeed a dog?\nPossibly a \"modified\" dog, but a dog no less?  The Wolfean Naming Rule\nclearly doesn't always work, since the Salamander is no newt (though\nit does resemble a certain Newt after a fashion, it flames and flames\nuntil its flames burn its bridges and it conveniently disappears :-)\n\nDan P. aka\nLexicographer Shellac"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0024-0013@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "CRCulver",
        "address": "crculver at aol.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-02-26T00:35:32+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) What's in a name?",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0024-0012@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Shellac wrote:\n<<The Wolfean Naming Rule clearly doesn't always work, since the Salamander is\nno newt (though it does resemble a certain Newt after a fashion, it flames and\nflames\nuntil its flames burn its bridges and it conveniently disappears :-)>>\n\nThe Salamander, according to ancient Greek belief, could survive in fire.\nJorge Luis Borges, in _El Libro de Seres Imaginarios_ (The Book of Imaginary\nBeings), wrote an article on the Salamander and Wolfe took it, like many of\nBorges' creatures (Baldanders, etc.) for the BotNS.\n\n- Christopher R. Culver <crculver at aol.com>"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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