The thing about “Kip.”

It’s that there are so few of us, you know? I mean, there’s Kip Niven, and Kip Adotta, and Tom Hanks played a Kip once, and there was this football player named Kip something, and even if you start to add in all the “Kipps” out there, there’s just not that many. (There was a woman in one of Gene Wolfe’s novels named Kip, but I think that was short for Stanford.) —Anyway. When you’re watching a movie, and Katharine Hepburn keeps saying, “Kip, stop it,” and “Kip, behave yourself,” and “Kip, don’t do that,” and your name is Kip, well, you get a little twitchy, is all I’m saying.