Everyone Knows the King of the Sea
- What's in a name? Well, according to Delphine, a lot. And she doesn't appreciate how Cecile just went and transformed her name like she did, changing herself and becoming someone that's no longer their mother.
- Delphine remembers Cecile being around a bit before she high-tailed it to California, and has flashes of memory from when she was very young.
- Delphine was a good name, a unique name.
- That is, until Flipper came on the air—then kids found a way to make fun of it.
- Things got so bad that Delphine even beat a kid up for teasing her about her name.
- Then she marched straight to the library to look her name up in the Merriam Webster dictionary.
- (P.S. She thinks Merriam Webster is the name of a woman who wrote the dictionary.)
- Delphine was furious to find that her name is, in fact, in the dictionary.
- Why the anger? Because it means Cecile didn't make it up, so it isn't special; it isn't unique.
- Cecile turned her favorite singer, Sarah Vaughan's, name into Vonetta, and she made up a name for Fern that so amazing she left when she wasn't allowed to use it.
- But Delphine didn't mean anything to Cecile; it was just an already invented name that she got from the dictionary. Bummer.