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Take care to look for patterns in how you choose which people are referred to by which names.

A few years ago, I reread all of Isaac Asimov's Foundation/Robot/Empire novels, and commented to my wife, "All of the men are always referred to by their last names. All of the women and robots are always referred to by their first names. I wonder what's up with that."

She said, "Robots and women serve men."

Oh.

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