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    "id": 1953,
    "subject": "Of Cacogens and Carnifexes (Carnifices?)",
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    "first": "1999-11-11T23:04:49+00:00",
    "last": "1999-11-11T23:04:49+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0457@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jim Henley",
        "address": "jlhenley at erols.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-11-11T23:04:49+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Of Cacogens and Carnifexes (Carnifices?)",
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          "text": "Joy at last came to Casa High Clearing yesterday in the form of my belated\nbirthday copy of the Lexicon. Suffice to say I'm enjoying it hugely, but a\ncouple of etymologies are not in there that I wanted to offer up.\n\nFirst \"cacogen.\" Okay, filthy born. Right. Got that. But has anyone\nsuggested \"shit-spewer\" or even bullshitter? If we read it as being of the\nsame form as _pathogen_ we get \"causer or creator or producer of ordure\" -\ncacogenesis would be the process itself. (And what a lovely process it is!)\nFrom there it's just a quick jaunt to the demotic, fueled by the resentment\nfor extrasolarians. And what do people resent? That the cacogens keep\nwhispering in the Autarch's ear, no doubt feeding him a line of crap to get\nhim to do what they want.\n\nSeems like \"cacogen\" becomes a genuinely insulting thing to say about\nsomeone.\n\nCarnifex - wouldn't this simply be \"meat maker?\" A pretty direct\ncharacterization of an executioner's function - you could see it maybe\nappearing on their vision statements. Then if there were an unheated prison\nwhere, one winter, an inmate was pressed into the role of acting headsman\nin the absence of an official functionary, the poor fellow would be a\nchilly con carnifex.\n\n<runs like hell>\n\nBest,\n\n\nJim\n ******************************************\n\"What fades in time                           Costello/\nwill hurt much more\"                        Bacharach, \"My Thief\""
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