A child argued her name could be swapped for any variant sharing its root

Evidence

I persisted. “Yes, but why not ‘Natalie’? That has the same first three letters as ‘Nathan.’ ‘Naomi’ only has two. Or why not ‘Natalia’? That’s even better. Or ‘Natasha.’ Or ‘Nadia.’ I’m changing it to ‘Nadia.’” — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 141

Categorization

• FICTION: The child insisting her name is procedurally interchangeable is a resonant self-loss image — the self as a debuggable parameter.