I Do Not Exist - Unger

I magine, if you will, a somewhat uncommonly shaped object, one whose shape isnot very irregular or bizarre, perhaps, but which is at least sufficiently so thatwe have no common name or expression for an object with a shape of that sort.Following this instruction, then, you have not imagined a pyramid, or cylindricalobject, for those are readily spoken of in available terms. I shall call your imaginedobject a nudnick, which term you are to apply also to such various other objectsas you deem suitably similar in shape to the first. In this way, we have invented anew word together: 1 have given you the form of the inscription, ‘nacknick’, andsome instructions which help to delimit the meaning. But only you have enough ofan idea of the word to put it to much use. That is because, according to this littlestory, you have not revealed