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  "thread": {
    "id": 5501,
    "subject": "Tracking Song - Names",
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    "first": "2009-10-22T14:59:52+00:00",
    "last": "2009-10-22T14:59:52+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<4AE07368.4010808@verizon.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David Stockhoff",
        "address": "dstockhoff at verizon.net"
      },
      "date": "2009-10-22T14:59:52+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Tracking Song - Names",
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          "text": "Unfortunately, the only cutthroat animal I can think of is a trout!\n\nRegarding the other animals/tribes: Should we take them as (a) animals \n(b) evolved animals (c) \"devolved\" humans (d) something else?\n\nIf (a), then, Cutthroat must be someone so accustomed to humans, perhaps \ncoming from a ship-based human civilization, that he can't imagine \nanimals and \"makes up\" the dialog we read in order to account for the \ntribes' (i.e., species') behavior. This would be /tre /Wolfean.\n\nIf (b), then they are indeed animals but they have sentience, allowing \nCutthroat to interact with them as humans. Very pulpy, very Wolfean.\n\nIf (c), then they are cannibal humanoids (again, separate species) who \ndeceive Cutthroat by their appearance. Disturbing, but probably not true \nsince it /appears /to be true.\n\nAll of these are tantalizing possibilities. (a) and (b) could easily \nco-occur. All are distinct from the dwarf, who must be a \"true\" fallen \nhuman."
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          "text": "----------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nMessage: 1\nDate: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:29:02 +0100\nFrom: \"O'Donnell, Tim (BOSI)\" <Tim.O'Donnell at bankofscotland.ie>\n\nHello,\n\nI am reading through old, old archives at the moment and came across speculation as to where Cim Glowing as a name could have come from.\n\nSample post:\nhttp://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0005/0348.shtml\n\n\nLiving as I do with a botanist I took to looking through her books to see if I could pinpoint a botanical source.\nThe flower \"Cymbidium\" has many variations, one is known as the Snow Orchid or sometimes the Snow Court:\nhttp://www.sborchid.com/plantdisplay.php?ocode=CYM10811\n\n\nI thought it was a good match for the following description:\n When I was born my father wished to name me Seven Snows, which is a common name for girls among our people. But I was born while he was away in his boat; and before he returned, \nmy mother had left her bed and seen the Cim blowing from tree to tree like a soft star in the air, and completed the naming. \n\nI could see how if the flowers were blown loose they would resemble soft stars blowing in the wind.\n\nInterestingly, the flower seems to be native to the Himalayas which would provide some support for this post:\nhttp://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0005/0348.shtml\n\nwhich suggests that the setting for Tracking Song could be \"India-with-snow\".\n\nAny thoughts?"
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