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And so we met...
Cratylus, perhaps of some perplexity to the student, Plato. Do names have meaning, or do they slot as X and Y to equations grammatical? Fido trends dogwards, but what of Indiana? Sinn? Bedeutung? Maybe both, or not the other.
mi viska la nanmu poi terpa le ke'a skami
I see Man Afraid Of His Computer.
sina ken awen e nimi sina
You may use your name.
A reference to S── forms the Dostoevsky dash, longer than Marathon. Such are obvious to those who know. "The Tale of Genji" is noteworthy. There are not dashes, but to call so-and-so such-and-such, pray, no! Woe to the name-bound with their neat pins for that moving cast.
Women, fire, dangerous things: a shelf could do worse for 道德經 and "A Wizard of Earthsea".
"A drink" I cried, "for I have just killed a man."
"Killed a man? What was his name?"
"Zanzibar."
"Zanzibar! He was my brother!"
And so we met...