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in reply to a message by Perrine
I know a very nice Cleone, if that helps.
Cleo is more Laine than Antony in today's world. I think it would pass unnoticed, but I don't like it much at all. I do like Clara, however, and Clare.
A friend of mine has two daughters, Lucy and Clea. Clea was named after the Lawrence Durrell Alexandria Quartet books, and compared to just about all the other characters, she's sane, normal, pleasant and clearly in the wrong book! (They put me right off Justine for years.) Anyway, the family are now saying that she needn't have bothered giving her daughter an arcane literary reference for a name, because nobody else has heard of it and the kid gets routinely called Clare. I find this rather bleak and very unconvincing, and I hope that it wouldn't happen in Europe! South Africa can be rather Philistine at times.
Cleo is more Laine than Antony in today's world. I think it would pass unnoticed, but I don't like it much at all. I do like Clara, however, and Clare.
A friend of mine has two daughters, Lucy and Clea. Clea was named after the Lawrence Durrell Alexandria Quartet books, and compared to just about all the other characters, she's sane, normal, pleasant and clearly in the wrong book! (They put me right off Justine for years.) Anyway, the family are now saying that she needn't have bothered giving her daughter an arcane literary reference for a name, because nobody else has heard of it and the kid gets routinely called Clare. I find this rather bleak and very unconvincing, and I hope that it wouldn't happen in Europe! South Africa can be rather Philistine at times.
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