Greg Lazarus's Blog - Posts Tagged "names"
A rose by any other name doesn’t always smell as sweet
I’ve never liked my name. It reminds me of a little girl twirling her curls while sucking a lollipop. Lisa Lazarus: that is not a name with serious intent. When I gabble it down the phone, I sound all tangled up. Backwards, it’s Asil Surazal and if I say it right, it rhymes, making my name lilting and light. But I can’t use my name backwards, so basically I have a life sentence with the forward version.
I could have lost my name when I married but that didn’t seem right. I’d been stuck with this odd-sounding abbreviation of me for close on 30 years by then and had kind of made peace with it (in the same way I’d got used to never tanning.) Like untanned skin, I thought of my name as a ‘feature’ rather than a ‘failure’, or at least that’s what I told myself. And anyway...
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I could have lost my name when I married but that didn’t seem right. I’d been stuck with this odd-sounding abbreviation of me for close on 30 years by then and had kind of made peace with it (in the same way I’d got used to never tanning.) Like untanned skin, I thought of my name as a ‘feature’ rather than a ‘failure’, or at least that’s what I told myself. And anyway...
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