Time to change my name?
Sep. 13th, 2007 10:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I came across this in the Wikipedia entry for Aleister Crowley, of all places. It's the reason he gave for changing his name from Alexander:
"I had read in some book or other that the most favourable name for becoming famous was one consisting of a dactyl followed by a spondee, as at the end of a hexameter: like 'Jeremy Taylor'."
Is there any truth in this? Presumably Daniel Handler thinks so.
"I had read in some book or other that the most favourable name for becoming famous was one consisting of a dactyl followed by a spondee, as at the end of a hexameter: like 'Jeremy Taylor'."
Is there any truth in this? Presumably Daniel Handler thinks so.
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Date: 2007-09-13 09:17 am (UTC)Margaret Thatcher.
Stop me now, please, somebody!
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Date: 2007-09-13 11:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-09-13 11:22 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-09-13 02:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-09-13 01:57 pm (UTC)not answering your question, but,
Date: 2007-09-13 07:31 pm (UTC)Yes spelled diffently. Oh well.