A rose is

by Yule Heibel on June 4, 2003

This is the story, What’s in a name?, pronounciation and all.

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Goyo June 11, 2003 at 12:44 pm: +++

This info about your name is fascinating, and gives the lie to the old
Gertrude Stein adage, ‘ a rose is a rose is a rose, etc’.
Stein was wrong, as you prove, in trying to reduce the mystery of personal identity
to a childish name game without meaning.

See you soon

Gregory

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Yule Heibel June 12, 2003 at 2:51 am: It’s also the flip side of “be careful what you ask for,” which is why we call them “given” names. Hey-ho.

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