In each case, though, both the namer and the named seemed to be acting altruistically. |
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Linnaeus, that great Swedish namer of plants, was pretty circumspect too when he called it Lycopersicon esculentum, the edible wolf-peach. |
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He came to the profession from a background in devising cryptic crosswords and says it takes a particular type of person to make a good horse namer. |
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He has gone, one might say, from explicator to gnostic namer, from the secular, discursive Horatian thinker-poet to a more compressed priest-like voice, intent on Mystery. |
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