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Both traditions rule that death changes the legal status of a person's spoken name · the same object, handled with opposite polarity: China seals the dead man's name away from all mouths; Egypt performs ritual speech to keep it in circulation. An inverse rhyme: each preserves the same gap, one as silence, one as recitation.
At death the personal name becomes the survival mechanism: an entire chapter · 'The Chapter of causing a man to remember his name in the underworld' · exists to restore the name to the deceased ('Chapter XXV restored to him his memory'), because a dead man whose name is lost ceases to exist.
set against Liji, Qu Li I
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