…yet we would never have permitted ourselves the easy temptation of the customary nicknames; thus, instead of giving her the brutish nickname “Etruscan Amphora” we agreed on the more decent and homely one, “Rumpy.” We always proceed with the same tact, although it happens that we have fights with the neighbors, who insist upon the traditional devices. Now in the case of my younger second cousin, who carries around a remarkably large head, we always rejected the nickname “Atlas,” which had been given to him at the snack bar on the corner, and preferred the infinitely more delicate one, “Pinhead”––etcetera.
— Cronopios & Famas, Julio Cortázar
