I've become fixated with names. Names of people, products, places, and companies. Anything that gets a name. This post is a collection of riffs mostly about names of people I like from the books I've read so far this year. From the second book in Sir Osbert Sitwell's memoir, Great Morning Miss Primrose Miss Figglestone Sir Titus Tittlebyte Lady Viola Tree and her daughters, Iris and Felicity and husband Sir Herbert . They could be depended upon to supply an entertainment of the most delicious personal fantasy based on the flimsiest and most delicate foundation of sense. Lady Tree when offered two kinds of fish at dinner, 'Ye cannot serve both Cod and Salmon.' Another icthyophoagous bon-mot when offered Haddock responded, 'Cry Haddock and let slip my dogs of war!' On her death bed, she referred to her lawyer coming to her bedside to teach her death duties. More names from another book, Kearny's March Aquilla Gl...