“First of all,” he said, “you should note that the absence of the last letter of the name ‘Nebraska’ is no accident. Why was it left incomplete? Not through fatigue or love of brevity, since only the final letter, a mere a, is missing. Lack of space? Not that, either; look closely and you will see that there is still space for another two or three syllables. Hence the omission is intentional, and the intention could only be to draw the reader’s eye to the letter k, being the last one written, hanging there abandoned and alone, devoid of purpose. Now, then, the brain has a tendency, which no law can override, to reproduce letters in two ways: the graphic form k, and the sonic form, which could equally be written ca. Thus, by drawing the eyes to the final letter written, the spelling defect instantly embeds it in the brain as the first syllable: Ca. Once so embedded, the natural impulse of the brain is then to read the whole name, and thus returns to the beginning of the word, to the initial ne of Nebrask, giving us Ca-ne. There remains the middle syllable, bras, and it is the easiest thing in the world to demonstrate how that can be reduced to another ca. I will not, however, demonstrate precisely how, since you lack the necessary preparation for a proper understanding of the spiritual or philosophical meaning of such a syllable, along with its origins and effects, its phases, modifications, logical and syntactical consequences, both deductive and inductive, as well as symbolic, and so forth. But taking that as read, we are faced with the final and incontrovertible proof of my initial assertion that the syllable ca is indeed joined to the first two, Ca-ne, giving us the name Caneca.”