And I will shine the rings round Saturn or roll stones with Sisyphus

[sovay]

I appear to have named a satellite.

Mike Brown rocks, and so do the Etruscans.

And this was—to my great surprise—already a good day!

Comments

[gaudynight78.livejournal.com]

Good Lord, I'm glad he didn't end up going with the Roman name of Persephone, given that he SPELLED IT WRONG throughout the blog post. It's not Prosperina (female version of Prospero?). It's PROSERPINA.

[sovay]

It's PROSERPINA.

. . . I know . . .

(I wonder how much metathesis is affected by familiarity. Prosper, Prospero—Proserpina just sounds out of order to English ears. So we auto-correct and the Romans are embarrassed.)

[gaudynight78.livejournal.com]

Exactly. And I realize that in my spelling-police fury, I neglected to congratulate on the extreme coolness of having named a satellite. And of the name you chose.

[sovay]

And I realize that in my spelling-police fury, I neglected to congratulate on the extreme coolness of having named a satellite. And of the name you chose.

Thank you! It makes me happy.