What’s In A Name?

To be or not to be what you’ve been named

Photo by Daniel Thomas on Unsplash

“To name a being is to define it, to indicate a direction to it. We are the name we have, and we must not live where that name is nothing, where its vibration is muffled.”
Léonora Miano in “Contours du jour qui vient”.

I came across this beautiful sentence that I loosely translated from French here above — I’m no professional translator…