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  "export": {
    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/242",
    "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": 242,
    "subject": "Cim glowing",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "1997-10-31T10:13:00+00:00",
    "last": "1997-11-03T21:06:40+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0005-0369@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Peter Cash",
        "address": "cash at rsn.hp.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-10-31T10:13:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Cim glowing",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "From: Jim Jordan <jbjordan at gnt.net>"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": " Here's the Cim name quote (p 199 of the 1980 Timescape\n pb edition of IODDAOSAOS):\n\n     When I was born my father wished to name me\n     Seven Snows, which is a common name for girls\n     amoung our people.  But I was born while he\n     was away in his boat; and before he returned,\n     my mother had left her bed and seen the Cim\n     blowing from tree to tree like a soft star in\n     the air, and completed the naming."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "        I have nothing to go on except the passage itself, but I figured that cim\nis snow. Notice that the naming is \"completed,\" which implies (possibly)\nthat the mother did not completely change the father's desires."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I hate to be always the contrarian (lie: I love it)...but I think \"Cim\"\nis an electrical phenomenon, like St. Elmo's Fire or ball lightning.\nEither could fit the description of a \"soft star\" moving from tree to\ntree. In addition there is Cim's weapon: perhaps the totemic naming\nconveys an analogous power on the named one, and thus Cim's weapon is\nelectrical.\n\nSgt. Rock"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0005-0370@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-10-31T17:36:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Cim glowing",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0005-0369@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Reply:  Item #7198344 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00#\n\nSgt. Rock,\n\nHey, nice tie-in re: electicity and the weapon!\n\nHow'bout Cim as \"firefly\"?  \"Glowing?\" Check!  \"Star-like?\"\nCheck!  \"Softer than thunder?\"  Check!\n\nRandom Latin: cimex (a bug).\n\n=mantis="
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0005-0382@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jim Jordan",
        "address": "jbjordan at gnt.net"
      },
      "date": "1997-11-03T21:06:40+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Cim glowing",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0005-0370@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Mantis writes:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Hey, nice tie-in re: electicity and the weapon!\n\nHow'bout Cim as \"firefly\"?  \"Glowing?\" Check!  \"Star-like?\"\nCheck!  \"Softer than thunder?\"  Check!\n\nRandom Latin: cimex (a bug)."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Ya beat me to it, Mantis. After thinking more about snow, I settled on\nlightning bug/firefly, and was planning to post.... And, if \"cim\" is bug,\nthen \"cim glowing\" is clearly firefly. \n\nI'll ride with this one until somebody gives a good reason to depart from it.\n\nNutricious"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}