Thursday, August 12, 2010

on certainty 579


579. It is part of the language-game with people’s names that everyone knows his name with the greatest certainty.



really – who’s to say what your name is?

whoever names you

you may want a particular name to be used all the time –

you may insist on it

but you can’t be certain that that will happen –

and indeed there may be circumstances –

where in fact it suits you –

to be given a different name –

and to use a different name


© greg t. charlton. 2010.