Almost Remember

Almost Touch

Are Hard To Take Back

Autocorrect

Belong Elsewhere

Carry Meaning

Catch In Your Throat

Change Their Meaning Over Time

Don't Quite Fit

Echo Long After

Exist To Be Carried

Feel Intimate Too Soon

Feel Like Déjà Vu

Feel Misplaced

Feel Too New For The Room

Forget Their Own Name

Forgive By Forgetting

Gender You

Get Forgotten

Get Lost In The Shuffle

Hit Close To Home

Hit Too Close To Home

Hum With Almost-Memory

Land Wrong

Look Back After You Pass

Need An Introduction

Need No Introduction

Open Old Wounds

Organize Memory

Remember By Mistake

Remember For Us

Remember You Wrong

Ring A Bell

Ring In Your Ears After

Ring Out

Ring True

Ripen In The Hallway

Shout In A Whisper

Sit Wrong

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Stick Like Ash

Stick Like Chlorine

Stick Like Copper

Stick Like Dust

Stick Like Echo

Stick Like Glass

Stick Like Glue

Stick Like Iron

Stick Like Lint

Stick Like Metal

Stick Like Midnight

Stick Like Mildew

Stick Like Milk

Stick Like Morning

Stick Like Paper

Stick Like Rain

Stick Like Rope

Stick Like Rust

Stick Like Salt

Stick Like Silence

Stick Like Smoke

Stick Like Static

Stick Like Stone

Stick Like Sugar

Stick Like Summer

Stick Like Vinegar

Stick Like Water

Stick Like Wine

Stick Like Winter

Stick Like Wire

Stick Like Wood

Stick Out

Stop You Cold

Turn Over In Your Mind

Turn Space Into Place

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is, for primitives, not simply a word, a mere combination of sounds... it is part of the being and, indeed, an essential part. When a member of the kangaroo clan calls himself a kangaroo, he is in a sense an animal of that species.

identity in name is presumed to entail an identity in nature For the primitive, the name is not simply a word, a mere combination of sounds... it is part of the being and, indeed, an essential part. When a member of the Kangaroo clan calls himself a kangaroo, he is in a sense an animal of that species' (durkheim elementary forms of religious life 1995, 134).

 changes it significance more drastically in the course of a year or two than words do in the course of centuries.

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.

supresses three-quarters of the named object's poetic pleasure --  which consist in the joy of guessing bit by bit 'le suggerer, voila le reve!"

For Mallarme naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consist in the joy of guessing bit by bit 'le suggerer, voilà le rêve!'). Umberto Eco

His name is the very soul of a man. Chaim of Valozhin

is a stagnant thing. Artists of the great age of Japanese art changed names many times during their careers to safeguard their freedom.

Did not the artists of the great age of Japanese art change names many times during their careers' I like that... they wanted to safeguard their freedom.

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is always inferior to the object named. No object is stuck with its name so irrevocably that one cannot find another which suits it better.

No object is stuck with its name so irrevocably that one cannot find another which suits it better.

is crucial to the idea. He that has complex ideas, without particular names for them, would be in no better case than a book-seller who had volumes that lay unbound and without titles, which he could make known to others only by showing the loose sheets.

He that has complex ideas, without particular names for them, would be in no better case than a book-seller who had volumes that lay unbound and without titles, which he could make known to others only by showing the loose sheets.

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