Names in "Song of Solomon"
page 15
Macon Dead never knew how it came about -- how his only son acquired the
nickname that stuck in spite of his own refusal to use it or acknowledge
it. It was a matter that concerned him a good deal, for the giving of
names in his family was always surrounded by what he believed to be
monumental foolishness.
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