Comments on: More narcissistic memery http://realfake.org/blog/2007/09/08/more-narcissistic-memery/ the tao that can be blogged is not the eternal tao Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:29:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Marco http://realfake.org/blog/2007/09/08/more-narcissistic-memery/#comment-13647034969908888533 Marco Sun, 09 Sep 2007 01:03:54 +0000 http://realfake.org/blog/2007/09/08/more-narcissistic-memery/#comment-13647034969908888533 <em>I don’t know if it was admiration or scorn</em> I'm sure I said it in my gentlest mocking tone and not as a criticism. Besides, as someone who devoted many hours in the fifth grade experimenting with signatures and who, to this day, only signs with a single name, I'm no one to talk. I'm quite aware of the beam in my own "I". I don’t know if it was admiration or scorn

I’m sure I said it in my gentlest mocking tone and not as a criticism. Besides, as someone who devoted many hours in the fifth grade experimenting with signatures and who, to this day, only signs with a single name, I’m no one to talk. I’m quite aware of the beam in my own “I”.

]]> By: Ezra http://realfake.org/blog/2007/09/08/more-narcissistic-memery/#comment-13647034969908888521 Ezra Sat, 08 Sep 2007 22:55:36 +0000 http://realfake.org/blog/2007/09/08/more-narcissistic-memery/#comment-13647034969908888521 Unless you count "bananafanafofezra". I don't know if it's a real word, but apparently it was in a song. Not so much in adult life, but in school, yes. I sort of grew up right on the edge of civilization, in Western Pennsylvania. A few miles to the north and you were solidly in the industrialized Pittsburgh suburbs. A few miles to the south, and you were in the country which more resembled West Virginia. So, people had sort of skewed experience. So "Ezra" was a challenge for most people. But if you had a crazy Eastern European last name with 6 consonants in a row, that was no problem. Unless you count “bananafanafofezra”. I don’t know if it’s a real word, but apparently it was in a song.

Not so much in adult life, but in school, yes. I sort of grew up right on the edge of civilization, in Western Pennsylvania. A few miles to the north and you were solidly in the industrialized Pittsburgh suburbs. A few miles to the south, and you were in the country which more resembled West Virginia. So, people had sort of skewed experience. So “Ezra” was a challenge for most people. But if you had a crazy Eastern European last name with 6 consonants in a row, that was no problem.

]]> By: John Cowan http://realfake.org/blog/2007/09/08/more-narcissistic-memery/#comment-13647034969908888510 John Cowan Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:23:34 +0000 http://realfake.org/blog/2007/09/08/more-narcissistic-memery/#comment-13647034969908888510 Huh. My middle name has only one initial letter, actually. (Yeah, I know what you meant.) And do people really mispronounce "Ezra"? Bizarre. People mispronounce my last name all the time, but my first they get right, of course. My middle -- well, I don't even tell them what it is, as a rule. But it sounds like He Who Must Not Be Named's name, properly pronounced in French, which it is. It must be interesting, though, to have a first name with no known rhymes. John Woldemar Cowan Huh. My middle name has only one initial letter, actually. (Yeah, I know what you meant.) And do people really mispronounce “Ezra”? Bizarre. People mispronounce my last name all the time, but my first they get right, of course. My middle — well, I don’t even tell them what it is, as a rule. But it sounds like He Who Must Not Be Named’s name, properly pronounced in French, which it is. It must be interesting, though, to have a first name with no known rhymes.

John Woldemar Cowan

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