“Well there you are,” said the chauffeur. “That’s just how it’d be. Names on ships are familiar from times before mass production. In principle, it amounts to the same thing as naming horses. So that airplanes treated like horses are actually given names too. There’s the Spirit of St. Louis and the Enola Gay. We’re looking at a full-fledged conscious identification.” “Which is to say that life is the basic concept here.” “Exactly.” “And that purpose, as such, is but a secondary element in naming.” “Exactly. For purpose alone, numbers are enough. Witness the treatment of the Jews at Auschwitz.”
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