The Museum of Eterna's Novel

MAYBEGENIUS LAMENTS HIS NAME

Maybegenius: “How did it occur to the author to give my name the extravagant modality of the interrogative: Maybegenius? It obliges me to appear in dialogues in the following way:

Sweetheart: “What have we here? Maybegenius? Again today you’re here in ‘La Novela?’”

Maybegenius: “Today’s birthday is…”

Sweetheart: “The business of having birthdays tarnishes this novice novel; to celebrate birthdays is to live counting, to clutch at life, marking it with a tendency toward the End.”

Maybegenius: “I’ll think about what you say, and I’ll continue with what you didn’t let me say. Today’s birthday is Nonexistence.

“But I’ll return to the matter of my name. The author thought afterwards that since I was destined to talk a lot and only with you, Sweetheart, it would be a bother to you to enforce the interrogative pronunciation of my name. I’m agreed, but I should be named Full-Character…”

Sweetheart: “This is fine, yet he still can’t mend his ways.” Maybegenius: “It’ll be the novel’s only defect. But the truth is that the author is only worried about his own convenience, giving me a short name that says nothing. Saying nothing is here concise for the first time: until now it always required volumes.”