|| -------- -- -----  A E R I E   O B L I V I A N A . singular book of text wandertainment by Frank Edward Nora ------------------- ----------- A ROAD MAP OF ARCTICA--CUP 21--"COMMA'S COMA" <-------  ||  Severe Repair  ||  A Road Map of Arctica  ||  -------> (Cup SRrm021, Created v2 (6/7/99), Copyright 1999) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = COMMA'S COMA ISSUE 14 and a half and two-thirds the square root of 2 December 1993 Copyright 1993, (<---by me, Comma, get it?) ***MAJOR INTRO*** "That's My Name, Don't Wear It In" They say that which does not kill you makes you stronger? I hope I wind up stronger after all the shit I've been going through to legally change my name. The looks people give you when they don't understand. But I'll tell the whole story when the whole story is there to tell. What I do want to do is set the story straight. I've been hearing from all over all these different versions of why I want to change my name. It's like that game we all played as kids, post office or something, where you keep passing the same story over and over 'til it becomes totally transformed. So I am here to set the story straight. I was born Alwood Jacob Sturbridge on November 10, 1964. Alwood Jacob Sturbridge. That alone should be reason enough to change my name, no? But really, my overwhelming desire to change my name did not come from me not liking my name. If fact, younger, I did like my name. It was only when I began to forge works, and put my name to them, that I began to feel uncomfortable with my name, in relation to "stamping" it onto my works. It was really my computer art where the whole thing began. Wanting to sign my art, I tried it all--scanning in my signature and trying to merge it in with my art (no small feat in those days), typesetting my name in the works, resulting in type which looked terrible small and obstrusive big. So I wanted something like a single letter or symbol to represent myself, the more brief the better. Looking at an alphabet chart the comma jumped out at me. I could typeset it big, real big (in relation to other letters) without it being obtrusive. So the name really did start from that need, and all the philosophy of it came afterward, though I am sure it was with me at a subconscious level all along. A comma signals an end, but also a new beginning. I think I realized this right away. My computer art, all computer art, signalled an end of one kind of art, and the beginning of a new kind. And I represent a new SORT of creator, forger of works. Put that in your pipe and smoke it! -------> ------------------- ----------- -------- -- -----