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Sexuality between men had, throughout the Judaeo-Christian tradition, been famous among those who knew about it at all precisely for having no name — ‘unspeakable,’ ‘unmentionable,’ ‘not to be named among Christian men,’ are among the terms recorded by Louis Crompton. Of course, its very namelessness, its secrecy, was a form of social control.
—Toward the Gothic
Positivity post for people without names.
I’m just coming out of that myself, and it’s rough. It felt like every trans or genderqueer person around me had magically found their perfect new name super easily (obviously they didn’t but that’s what it can look like from the outside) while I was left in limbo with a deadname I disliked but no better names to go by for literal years. Not to mention the fear that people would accept your gender but think your name was dumb.
And that’s just my experience with namelessness, I’m sure there are tons of people out there who don’t have names for any number of other reasons! And that’s got to be hard in related but separate ways that I don’t know about.
ななしのやまい/歌愛ユキ
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no name
to wound the autumnal city.
So howled out for the world to give him a name.
The in-dark answered with wind.
(Samuel Delany, Dhalgren)
But this is not all. The shield bearing an eagle rests on the ground at his side. The Emperor does not hold it with his hand, as the Empress does. The shield is certainly there, but it belongs rather to the throne than to the person of the Emperor. This means to say that the purpose for which the Emperor is on sentry-duty is not his but that of the throne. The Emperor does not have a personal mission; he has renounced this in favour of the throne. Or, in esoteric terms, he has no name; he is anonymous, because the name--the mission--belongs to the throne. He is not there in his own name but rather in the name of the throne. This is the fourth renunciation of the emperor--the renunciation of a personal mission or name, in the esoteric meaning of the word.
It is said that, “Nature has a horror of emptiness” (horror vacui). The spiritual counter-truth here is that, “the Spirit has a horror of fullness”. It is necessary to create a natural emptiness--and this is what renunciation achieves--in order for the spiritual to manifest itself.
(Anonymous, Meditations on the Tarot)
She hated the namelessness of women in stories, as if they lived and died so that men could have metaphysical insights.
Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding
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