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Thursday, August 6, 2009

New Column: A Peachy by any other name does Smell as Sweet

This is dedicated to every Peachy in the world!

Obviously, Whom You Know readers know Shakespeare, so this is derived from:

From Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, 1594:

JULIET:
'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.

The point there is that of course, it is not the name that matters, it is what something IS that matters.

In this column, we are playing off of that in disagreement, saying the name DOES matter and this column is an appreciation of each Peachy, not just Peachy Deegan.

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