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  "thread": {
    "id": 500,
    "subject": "Names, animals, and meanings (F)",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-07-29T08:27:46+00:00",
    "last": "1998-07-29T08:27:46+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0008-0684@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "mary whalen",
        "address": "marewhalen at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-07-29T08:27:46+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Names, animals, and meanings (F)",
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          "text": "This is Sean Whalen (prion).\n\nFeather.  A light shaft with many thin barbs protruding from it along\none (imaginary) plane that contains the shaft.  Biological, used by\nbirds, usually to help in flight.  Feather is a boy at Silk's\npalaestra.  The only relation he seems to have with his name is that\nhe's falling when Silk is enlightened and Silk's perception of time\nslows, so he would seem to be falling slowly, like a feather.\n\nFeeler.  A sensory limb or projection of an animal, such as a tentacle\nor antenna.\n\nFemur.  Plural femurs or femora.  The thighbone, from the hip to the\nknee.  The largest and longest bone in humans.  Incus' older brother. \nIt is a bone with an irregular Latin plural, like Incus.\n\nFulmar.  Procellariidae Fulmarus glacialis.  Also called the fulmar\npetrel or the northern fulmar.  A seabird living in the North Atlantic\nOcean.  About a foot and a half long.  Eats fish and floating debris\n(they have increased in numbers due to getting more of this debris in\nthe form of waste from fishing).  Hunted for prized feathers, eggs,\nand oil.  This is a member of the black mechanics.  The name was\nprobably chosen partly because of the unpleasant association of the\nbird feeding on garbage.  However, fulmar is very close to fulminate,\nwhich comes from the Latin word fulmen, lightning, which has close\nassociations with electricity.\n\nprion"
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