Very good Ant/Antony/Tony. I like the way you trace the passage of your name from informality through the formality of professional years back to the informality of retirement. But the most strkiing thing is how you want the intimacy of your formal name – Antony – preserved in your relationship with Debbie: on the face of it that sounds contradictory, but yet it rings so true.
The shortening of names seems to be dying out. Indeed, it seems quite natural now to hear a parent cry “Sebastian and Angelica, come in NOW for your supper!”!
Very good Ant/Antony/Tony. I like the way you trace the passage of your name from informality through the formality of professional years back to the informality of retirement. But the most strkiing thing is how you want the intimacy of your formal name – Antony – preserved in your relationship with Debbie: on the face of it that sounds contradictory, but yet it rings so true.
The shortening of names seems to be dying out. Indeed, it seems quite natural now to hear a parent cry “Sebastian and Angelica, come in NOW for your supper!”!