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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/whorl/1419",
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  "thread": {
    "id": 1419,
    "subject": "Buying a sabretache",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-05-07T21:13:39+00:00",
    "last": "2001-05-07T21:13:39+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0772@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan Rabin",
        "address": "wolfe-lists at danrabin.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-05-07T21:13:39+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Buying a sabretache",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Christopher Culver asks:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "We've all seen how useful Severian's sabertache is. Does anyone know where\none could buy a sabertache in this modern world? Surely there is at least a\ncompany that makes replicas of older British uniform items somewhere."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "A quick Google search on \"sabretache\" turns up \n<http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~thinred/ceremonial.html>, an \nentire catalog of British uniform items.\n\nThe sabretache goes for 1.45 hectopounds.  It doesn't look like \nsomething _I'd_ want to wear around town, but that's just me.  The \ninsignia part is bigger than the pouch part on this model.\n\nIf you don't want to go for replication, the item generally known in \nthe U.S. as a fanny pack sounds like the nearest contemporary \napproximant.\n\nI couldn't find a site specializing in the late Commonwealth period \nof Urth. If I could I'd go for the _Terminus Est_ loving reproduced \neven down to the signature of Jovinian on the tang of the blade.  If \nthey won't sell me one, I'll have them killed in a duel and claim it \nas my victor's right.\n\n   -- Dan \"Agilus believed in flower power\" Rabin\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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