Thursday, 3 July 2025

What Happens When We Name?

This one leans into naming—its seductions, its limits, and its quiet magic:


TOPO:
To name is to know, is it not?

RHEO:
It can be. But naming also cuts.
It fixes what was still becoming.

TOPO:
Then names are both anchors and cages?

RHEO:
Yes. They steady the world—
but they can also still it too soon.

TOPO:
And yet, without names, how do we reach one another?

RHEO:
We don’t abandon naming.
We treat it gently—as invitation, not conclusion.

TOPO:
So a name is not the thing.
It’s a gesture toward it.

RHEO:
Exactly. A way of saying:
“I meet you here, even if I do not yet know all of you.”


RHEO & TOPO:
To name is not to own—
It is to call, to touch, to begin again.

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