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Glim
A Small Field of Chestnuts
Posts: 3
12/17/2019
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I started collecting glim. It is shiny. It is vaguely nautical. It comes from beetles. 
I always assumed that the word came from something like glimmer.
Or possibly from slang for loot, as in "where did you stash the glim?"
Recently I was rereading "The Victorian Underworld" (Kellow Chesney 1970, Pelican 1974 edition)
In the glossary of Victorian slang at the back it lists glim as
1. begging by pretending your house has burnt down
2. venereal disease
Now I got to wondering. Is that a deliberate Failbetter joke? You know, snuffers eat candles, sailors have lots of glim?
In any case, now I have read that, do I want to be collecting it?
(Also, sorry if someone has already mentioned this or if it possibly comes up later in the game or in Sunless Seas or somewhere - I am a very low level player new to your forums and don`t know too much. Also, sorry it is a bit of an inappropriate topic but I have to ask.)
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Ixc
Posts: 365
12/17/2019
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I say you should. Though they say glim is the dandruff of a tonsorially neglectful (and dead, so you can't blame it) god, and we live in its skull. If this theory is true, you are technically collecting (somewhat gross) pieces of a god, so go ahead.
Of course, if it is dandruff, then it's scalp and hair was upside down inside its skull, but anatomy, like many things is weird in the Neath.
(Glim is very shiny, tho. Very good reason to collect it.)
edited by Ixc on 12/17/2019
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Pleased to meet you. Ixc, spy and detective. Inventor of the Correspondence Cannon.
Are you a Paramount Presence? Record your name here. For posterity, of course.
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
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Lady Sapho Byron
Posts: 770
12/17/2019
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I will only say that Alexis Kennedy strikes me as a very well read and erudite individual.
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http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/Lady%20Sapho%20L%20Byron
Fighting the Menace of Corsetry Since 1892.
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A Small Field of Chestnuts
Posts: 3
12/17/2019
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Well it adds another dimension of joy to reading the game anyway.
After my first post I got the `lapidary requires vast quantities of glim` card and thought, maybe she should try the docks. Tee hee. (She`s not getting any, anyway. Why can`t I get rewarded with one of those miniature glim swans?) 
Dead-god internal dandruff? Well that`s no worse than fossils or ambergris, really. So long as I`m not going to catch anything from handling it I resolve never to sell another shard.
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Jolanda Swan
Posts: 1783
12/19/2019
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Great catch!
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Lover of all things beautiful, secret admirer of ugly truths, fond of the Parabola Sun... and always delighted to role play.
http://fallenlondon.com/profile/Jolanda%20Swan
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