Nowadays, you can buy a name at any local convenience store.
Fairly good ones too, certified auspicious according to the various nomancy
guidelines. Those names are not customized, but they'll do fine in a pinch, and
at their mass-market price point there's not much to complain about.
In fact, I just bought a name as I was buying breakfast on
the way to work earlier this morning. Certainly, it's not something that's an
absolute necessity- with this new addition, I have about seventeen names in
total- but we can't always live on the basis of necessity, can we? In any case, the new name happened to be a
middle name, which could easily be inserted into my existing names.
What a
thoughtful product! It was certainly an improvement on earlier versions, where
only first (or worse, last) names were offered, leading to complaints from
confused customers.
While nobody was looking during work, I logged on to my favorite
nomacy website and keyed in my updated name. Immediately, countless complex
calculations were performed remotely and their results transferred and
displayed onto my screen. The predictions on various types of luck were indicated
in green and red, foretelling fortune and misfortune respectively.
My new name, it seemed, did not affect my fortunes in a
manner that I had hoped. There were some minor improvements in luck here and
there, but on a whole the effect was marginal at best. It was well known that
there were diminishing returns to adding further names. There were examples of people
who benefited significantly from having thirty or even fifty names, but many of
those people employed experts to design their names. I would just have to be
happy with my convenience store-bought name.
