I do have a tendency
to name-drop. My saving grace is that my name dropping is not stupid, show business celebrities, however I do name-drop, it might be academics, doctors, lawyers, people I believe have a degree of gravitas and it will embellish me to be associated with them. In pejorative language I have a tendency to 'big myself up.'
However by simply associating oneself with someone
as some index of your ability, is worth reflection. For a desire to align oneself
with the name and some set of attributes associated with that person;
name-dropping for the purpose of social circulation, for
agrandisement is crudely self-serving and shallow.
Which reminds me the the other day I was with....
read Peter P. Cheevers' fiction on Ether books
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