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  "export": {
    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/939",
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  "archive": "urth",
  "thread": {
    "id": 939,
    "subject": "Min",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-07-08T17:27:21+00:00",
    "last": "1998-07-08T17:27:21+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0016-0016@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "mary whalen",
        "address": "marewhalen at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-07-08T17:27:21+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Min",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "This is Sean Whalen (prion).\n\nI recently looked through a book called _Myths and Legends of the\nSioux_ by Marie L. McLaughlin to try to find insight into the story\nTracking Song, and came across a story within it called \"The Rabbit,\nand the Bear with the Flint Body.\"  It's about a rabbit who wants to\nmake flint arrowheads and goes to get flint from the bear that lives\nunder the hill.  The bear's body is half flint.  The rabbit chips off\nflint, but then chips too hard and the bear comes apart.  The rabbit\nflees, and is pursued by bears, but he runs and leaps so quickly that\nhe escapes them.  He calls a blizzard and the bears get trapped.  He\nthen kills the bears.\n\nThis seems to parallel much of what Cutthroat does in Tracking Song. \nThe bear under the hill is like the underground cyborg (or\nanti-cyborg) Min.  He kills some Min and gets a weapon (the horned\nstaff).  He is able to run and jump faster than anyone else because\n(probably) of the low gravity.  He seals the entrance to the cave and\ntraps the rest of the Min.\n\nprion"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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