Homer recounts how, trapped inside a monster's cave, with nothing but his wits to call upon, Ulysses once saved himself by twisting his name.
He called himself Outis: No One, or Non-One, No Man, or Non-Man.
The ploy was a success.
He blinded his barbaric host and eluded him, becoming anonymous, for a while, even as he bore a name.
Philosophers never forgot the lesson that the ancient hero taught.
From Aristotle and his commentators in Greek, Arabic, Latin, and more modern langua.
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