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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/253",
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  "thread": {
    "id": 253,
    "subject": "Cim & Mr. Million go Shopping",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1997-11-05T10:02:05+00:00",
    "last": "1997-11-05T10:02:05+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0005-0384@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Peter Cash",
        "address": "cash at rsn.hp.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-11-05T10:02:05+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Cim & Mr. Million go Shopping",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Mantis writes:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "How'bout Cim as \"firefly\"?  \"Glowing?\" Check!  \"Star-like?\"\nCheck!  \"Softer than thunder?\"  Check!\n\nRandom Latin: cimex (a bug)."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I cede the point: lightning bug it is!"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "In French, saltimbanque means \"charlatan.\" Sorry for saying\n\"counterfeiter,\" though that's close. Given the hell associations, the 666,\nthe whorehouse, and the generally evil experiments of Mr. Million, I'd say\n\"Satan as charlatan\" was clearly in Wolfe's mind. Not that the story is an\nallegory, or something. But the last line of the original novella is a\nchiller if this line of clones is really an \"antichrist\"!"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Whop! It just hit me what you're talking about...Mr. Million is an\nancestor of the line, isn't he? Some kind of personality imprint of\ngreat-grandpaw, right? Hmmm....Million=Legion, maybe?\n\nI do remember this line from the young man's father...something about\nhow \"we never rise any higher\", implying that the devil is stuck in a\nkind of mediocrity. The whole point of the cloning experiments is for\nthe devil to transcend his limitations, I guess. But it doesn't\nwork--the devil is just naturally mediocre. There's something of C.S.\nLewis in that; I think old Clive would like it.\n\nSgt. Rock"
        }
      ]
    }
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