Everyone knows about the video game that features Sonic the Hedgehog. Everyone but me. I thought that I had found a good name for my small ceramic zoomorphic sculptures that made clicking noises when shaken when I read about a molecule called sonic hedgehog. It turns out that I was influenced by a rather obscure term which had been named after the popular video character. Every now and then someone would tell me that my name for my idiophones was a video game. But I didn’t actually look that up until my friend started writing little stories about my sonic hedgehogs. Looks like we might need a name change before officially going public. Too bad. I enjoyed calling my invention sonic hedgehogs. It seemed so apt. And I could not come up with a satisfactory alternative: clicking critters, sonic salamanders, atonal animals....they all fell short. It seems the best names are always taken!The second batch of sonic hedgehogs came out of my kiln recently. This time the substantial
ly reduced atmosphere made most of them quite dark. But they still make a good clicking noise when shaken, whatever I might eventually name them.
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