And your name? she said, I suppose it's quite unremarkable? Very funny. Mark. It could stand as a symbol of a man, for men as a category, she reflected, but I don't suppose that's why your mother gave it to you? My mother's motives always were impenetrable to me. I was her only child, she wanted a simple life. So she gave me a simple name to go along with it. --- It wasn't a popular name until the nineteenth century. People were put off by King Mark in the Tristram and Iseult.

Hey, you should've seen it, it was well good.

The overpriced items would not sell.

(historical)