Well, you mortals wise enough to hear The Great and Mighty Presto, it is now time to once more change topic, now moving on to a novel known as "Song of Solomon". Now, The Great and Mighty Presto will admit, this novel was quite an... experience, to read. There were plenty of rather... strange occurrences, but there was also something else The Great and Mighty Presto has discerned from reading this. Now, it's no surprise that you mortals have plenty of strange habits, but one that The Great and Mighty Presto has discovered is how you mortals place oh so much value in the concept of names, unlike The Great and Mighty Presto of course, such a small matter as a name could never be worth the time of one so great. One good example of this, is the boy now known as "milkman", due to the incident with Freddy catching his mother breastfeeding the boy at an uncomfortably late age. This name that Freddy thought up, ended up spreading like wildfire, for one due to the man Freddy being known as a sort of "town caller", and the other lies in something related to the nature of mortal men. Once Mortals have seen one of the others as a namer, it is quite hard for them to change their viewing them as such, thing back to The Great Gatsby, where Nick continues to call Gatsby by his invented name, regardless of his knowledge of Gatsby's true name, for that is how Nick knew him. Though, names seemingly don't hold power to merely others, but their owner themselves seem to use them as a sort of definition for themselves. This is shown when Pilate tells Milkman "Ain't but three Deads alive", and milkman becoming defensive over it not quite knowing why "Even while screaming he wondered why he was suddenly defensive-so possessive about his name. He had always hated that name, all of it". Mortals seem to take great investment into their names, even when they have reason for distaste in them, because not only others use their name to perceive them, but they do as well, and without a name, what are they to call themselves, how are they to know themselves, are they even a person at all? The Great and Mighty Presto, as previously stated though, has no more time to ponder on such unimportant topics, and so you know, just due to the fact The Great and Mighty Presto know names are truly meaningless, only given meaning by pitiful mortals, doesn't mean you are allowed to call him by others names, that would be disrespectful to The Great and Mighty Presto, and thusly heresy!
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