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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/whorl/57",
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  "thread": {
    "id": 57,
    "subject": "Digest whorl.v001.n031",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "1997-01-31T12:35:46+00:00",
    "last": "1997-02-01T04:22:00+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0002-0094@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice Turner",
        "address": "al at interport.net"
      },
      "date": "1997-01-31T12:35:46+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v001.n031",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Hello there, Michael----um, mantis---how nice to be disagreeing with you in\npublic instead of private. If you're going to take a Viron name, so will I.\nHow's aloe? That should be handy for all those pesky WWW sign-in thingies.\n\nI've stated my position on Pike's ghost. The anti-virus injection is\nintriguing, but I still don't understand why Q lies, or even who he's lying\nto.\n\naloe\n\nQuestions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0002-0095@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David_Lebling",
        "address": "david_lebling at avid.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-01-31T14:57:41+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Digest whorl.v001.n031",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0002-0094@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "From: m.driussi at genie.com\nRe: Calde Tussah, I'm wondering if he isn't Hindu-Indian?  That is,\nfrom Trivigaunte."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I thought the Triviguantis were more Arab or Persian than Indian. They\nat least show Islamic survivals, wherever they are from.  For example,\ntheir symbol is a red triangle, \"because Sphigx won't let them use\nimages.\"  They are monotheists (more or less, worshipping only or mostly\nSphigx). Their names and the little bits of their language that we hear\nare more like Arabic than Hindi, as well.\n\n     Dave\n     (david_lebling at avid.com)\n\nQuestions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0002-0098@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-02-01T04:22:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Digest whorl.v001.n031",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0002-0095@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
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          "text": "Reply:  Item #6681520 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01#\n\nRe: Hindi stratum to Trivigaunte society.  \"Calde'\" is to Spanish as\n\"Rani\" is to Hindi (although the ranks are as different as mayor and\nqueen).  True, \"khanum\" is Turko-Persian, and \"Nizam\" is\nUrdu/Turkish/Arabic, but still.\n\nNot much, I'll admit.  But it's there.  With a Hindu core area and\nsatellite areas (different cities contributing the \"Turkish,\" \"Persian,\"\nelements that were not indiginous to original Trivigaunte) brought in\nthrough the military campaigns the text suggests they've gone through,\nI can envision a Mogul-type/Indus Valley empire with an Islamic\n(monotheistic/desert) aspect that is matriarchal rather than patriarchal\n(Allat rather than Allah). (This is largely speculative, of course.)\n\n(Can't resist pointing out the silk road.)\n\n=mantis=\n\nQuestions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com"
        }
      ]
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