the fork

I probably should have made "the fork" the title for this blog... and so it goes.

here is an excerpt from Joakim Garff's biography of Soren Kierkegaard (translated by Bruce H. Kirmmse):

At home [Kierkegaard] bore the nickname "the fork," because that was the utensil he had named when he had been asked what he would most like to be: "a fork," the freckled little boy had answered. "Why?" "Well, then I could 'spear' anything I wanted on the dinner table." "But what if we come after you?" "Then I'll spear you." And the name "the fork" stuck to him because of "his precocious tendency to make satirical remarks." (p. 8-9).

I want to be a fork.