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The importance of Names.
Marie August:
--- Quote from: Second Aristh on June 11, 2012, 12:00:05 AM ---I assumed that Harry Carpenter sounds too much like hairy carpenter.
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Harry anything can always sound like "hairy". But there are worse last names to go next to it than Carpenter.
Thessaly:
--- Quote from: chocclare on June 11, 2012, 10:40:52 PM --- LOL ;D
To get back on topic, Marcone is not his real name either. I had assumed his real name would be something in the order of Gianmarco Something (Rossi maybe, as that's the Italian equivalent of Smith? ;D). The suffix -one is Italian for "big", so Gianmarco becomes John Marco(ne), implying that he is bigger in his new persona than he was before. Etymology, ftw!
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Major life-altering changes coincides, betimes, a change in one's name. (Probably the only time, really.) The old name has no more relevance to who they are now than hair as a material binding to someone that shaved their head. There's no magical connection. It's theirs, but it no longer applies to them as how they are now. Besides, in choosing his own Name one assumes there to be greater abundance of meaning involved in the act that applies to their person.
Hairy Carpenter, ha!
I just figured Harry was dismayed as any boy or girl who has been teased about their name growing up. Incredulity that parents would willingly name someone with the same name is par for the course.
Second Aristh:
--- Quote from: Thessaly on June 12, 2012, 12:12:24 AM ---Major life-altering changes coincides, betimes, a change in one's name. (Probably the only time, really.) The old name has no more relevance to who they are now than hair as a material binding to someone that shaved their head. There's no magical connection. It's theirs, but it no longer applies to them as how they are now. Besides, in choosing his own Name one assumes there to be greater abundance of meaning involved in the act that applies to their person.
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I wouldn't be so sure. Have you seen this WoJ?
--- Quote ---I read the short story from Marcone's point of view, Even Hand, and I noticed that John Marcone is not his real name. Is that going to be significant?
Sure is if somebody tries to cast a spell at him using the name John Marcone! That would be a big deal. We'll have to see how that works out. Actually the character that's really interesting is the Mirror Mirror universe Marcone, and we'll get to him in a few books.
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Thessaly:
--- Quote from: Second Aristh on June 12, 2012, 12:41:06 AM ---I wouldn't be so sure. Have you seen this WoJ?
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If anything, it only confirms the theory (mixed with something I mentioned in another thread. (http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,32594.0.html)
However, that conversation has its own place at the moment, and isn't really part of the nature of this one.
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