When I started writing my previous post (10 November 2023), I had the intention of illustrating my struggle with names. Writing the last post, I uncovered an inner ambivalence toward names, and then I went astray (and wrote what I actually needed to write).
I feel a similar pressure when sizing titles to things. My habit has become to give things a name that will remind me of what I’m trying to do and keep me on track months down the road. It becomes a tool of coherence and I find that I grow into the name over time
. . . On Other Names (continued)
I feel a similar pressure when sizing titles to things. My habit has become to give things a name that will remind me of what I’m trying to do and keep me on track months down the road. It becomes a tool of coherence and I find that I grow into the name over time