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  "thread": {
    "id": 981,
    "subject": "Demimondaine",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-07-13T23:53:09+00:00",
    "last": "1998-07-13T23:53:09+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0016-0075@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "mary whalen",
        "address": "marewhalen at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-07-13T23:53:09+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth)  Demimondaine",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "This is Sean Whalen (prion).\n\nDid Robert Borski have a theory that some of the prostitutes in the\nMaison du chien in tFHoC were aborigines?  Well, when I reread the\nbook, the first time their function was named, No. 5 called them\ndemimondaines.  Now, the primary meaning of this word is not\nprostitute, it is a woman who maintains herself on the largess of her\ncurrent lover.  It can also mean prostitute, however.\n\nBut, why did he use a term that primarily means something else?  Well,\nhe does it elsewhere, such as chien meaning wolf as well as dog, and\nsaltimbique meaning charlatan as well as performer.  However, it's\npossible, though I'm not completely convinced, that the prostitutes\nare abos and that he used the word partly because the radical meaning\nis half-worldly.  It is used the way it is because such people live on\nthe fringes of decency, while not going directly over it (in it's\nprimary definition, I assume).  It's also made up of a Greek word and\na French word, perhaps because of the names of some of the women there.\n\nI'm not sure if it really has any significance, but I thought others\nmight want some new information to use.\n\nprion"
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