Names—real names, fixed names, government names—are too concrete to be made into a story properly. You say, A man named Diamond Jones died trying to eat a mountain and that’s why there’s a crater in the wastes. And someone says, Actually, I checked, and there’s never been a man named Diamond Jones or According to his obituary Diamond Jones died from cancer, not mountain-eating. But if you say, Once—once and only once, because dates are as bad as names for stories—a man loved the ground so much he ate a mountain and it killed him but it killed the mountain too, people will learn from the story
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