“Winnie-the-Pooh” by A. A. Milne (post 2): At the beginning of the story, the title character has three distinct names, and is prolific, if brainless, poet

His three names are Edward Bear, Winnie-the-Pooh, and Sanders. Most people dismiss “Sanders,” the name over the door of his home, as a joke that refers to either a previous resident or a printer known to the author. And there are whole stories about where “Winnie” and “Pooh” came from. But, in my view, the interesting question is this:

Why does the author have—why is the author comfortable with having—three distinct names attached to one person (as if the person had multiple personality)?

Another prominent feature of the main character is that, like the author, he a writer. Edward/Pooh/Sanders is a poet, of which the reader is continually reminded by poem after poem.

But, paradoxically, Edward/Pooh/Sanders is said to have no brain. Milne thus seems to imply that writers (like himself) have no brain (in some sense, later to be discussed).