The art of naming things is the most underrated skill in ideaspace
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Something that’s coming to mind - is it Wizard of Earthsea? - this idea that names are powerful, something to be superstitious about - that wizards are in a sense merely people who know the real names of things. Can anybody point me in the right direction
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Yup. There’s something to it, this idea about names
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True names are Old Tech. All over... all of recorded history, basically.
Well worth a deep dive.
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Also, for entirely unrelated reasons, never refer to me as "B*****************************". That would be bad.