I think the concept of a true name is overrated. I think everyone should all have multiple names and switch between them at random. People should collect names the way we collect particularly nice mugs.
when Charles Bukowski said “and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?”
“I’m not a stable person, and often I encounter great difficulties in life, which often seems quite unbearable. There’s nothing I can do about that. But I love the world and life itself, and, even when in pain, I still have the pleasure of feeling part of a cosmic movement.”
— Hermann Hesse, from a letter to Volkmar Andreae written c. March 1913