Felicity Rilke's profile (website)

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Name: Alicia
Joined: June 16, 2005

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MeFi: 0 posts RSS feed of posts by Felicity Rilke, 12 comments
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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

The nickname comes from a misreading of James Merrill's "Lost in Translation:"

How much of the sun-ripe original
Felicity Rilke made himself forego


I read it more times than I'd like to admit before I realized that logically 'Felicity' belonged with 'sun-ripe original,' and that 'Felicity Rilke' was not a name.