Nevertheless,

it is dangerous to be named

and makes you mortal.

If you have a name

you can be sold

you can be told

by that name leave, or come

you become, in short

a reference, or if bad luck

is large in your future

you might become an institution

which you will then mistake

for defense. I could

now place you

in a column from which

There is No Escape

…

-Ed Dorn, The Gunslinger

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