| Quilter's CutI took up blogging on an impulse. I had given no thought to what my blog was going to be like. On being asked to fill the ‘Display Name’ field on Blogger, I was stumped.Beta of the Plough?Reminds one of A.G. Gardiner but sounds like too much of a spoof.Alpha Tauri?Obvious but too masculine.Belle, The Cat?Witty but too girlish.I was quizzing on the Encyclopedia Britannica right before going online to set up my blog. The last question was an audio-visual clip from the play Julius Caesar. (“When beggars die there are no comets seen”.) The ‘last stored value’ in my brain ‘Julius Caesar’ transmuted into ‘Julia Scissor’ (not Scissors, mind you.) Bingo! That’s a name with the cutting edge and it’s apt for the creator of the Quilt.Catch My StarAnother name that has generated great intrigue is Aldebaran. (See profile.) Aldebaran is ranked fourteenth among the brightest stars seen from the earth. Astronomically speaking, my real name is the Sanskrit language |
