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March 12, 2005

The comment box wants to know if Kripke's theory of naming with the Baby Name Wizard NameVoyager, and Lord, it just might. Clicking around the psychedelic Java so disoriented me that I could see myself having two babies, naming them "Hesperus" and "Phosphorus," and belatedly coming to realize that that they were the same baby.

 

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Texts and images copyright (C) 2022 Pauline Kerschen. Layout adapted from the Single A Tumblr theme by businessbullpen. The Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) has zygodactylic feet, leaving X-shaped tracks with ambiguous direction. The Pueblo and Hopi used the X symbol to mislead evil spirits. Border folklore in the early twentieth century held that a roadrunner would lead a lost traveler back to his path. In Mexico the roadrunner is known as paisano, countryman.