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Subject: Eric's Nickname Sat Jul 31, 2021 5:04 am
If Eric hated his school so much, why do you think he took to being nicknamed Reb, after his school's mascot?
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Subject: Re: Eric's Nickname Sat Jul 31, 2021 5:06 am
The irony consumes him
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Subject: Re: Eric's Nickname Mon Aug 02, 2021 3:48 pm
"Obviously the tragedy and the complexity of our anti heroes somehow manifested contradictions and it couldn't be that your first assumption is false" is the usual answer with such questions.
It should at least be considered that maybe it wasn't they hated the school every day from the beginning, or indeed ever.
If can get over that can indeed have an interesting discussion of where he got it from. He uses "Reb" not "Rebel". Even if it was just because of Columbine's fight name, which seems right, why shortening it? The shortened "Reb" almost makes it sound like a horses name from a civil war story or something.
Rebe or Reb is the German for vine. A parallel with vodka. I don't know of Eric as a winedrinker...though he did like the song Wilder Wein enough to identify with it at one point.
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Subject: Re: Eric's Nickname Tue Sep 14, 2021 6:05 am
cakeman wrote:
Rebe or Reb is the German for vine. A parallel with vodka. I don't know of Eric as a winedrinker...though he did like the song Wilder Wein enough to identify with it at one point.
I'm from Germany. The "Weinrebe" means the vineplant. Not the vine. The word "Reb" doesn't exist in Germany. There are some shortcuts for "Reb" but nobody uses this.
I don't think his name has something to do with the song.
The song is about the first menstruation of a girl. I'm not sure but i don't think that Eric got the point of the song.
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Rebe or Reb is the German for vine. A parallel with vodka. I don't know of Eric as a winedrinker...though he did like the song Wilder Wein enough to identify with it at one point.
I'm from Germany. The "Weinrebe" means the vineplant. Not the vine. The word "Reb" doesn't exist in Germany. There are some shortcuts for "Reb" but nobody uses this.
I don't think his name has something to do with the song.
The song is about the first menstruation of a girl. I'm not sure but i don't think that Eric got the point of the song.
I wasn't saying he got the intended message of the song, that's for sure. I imagine it appealed to him because he thought of himself as a wild animal (or plant). Like the songs "Wild Thing" or "Born to be Wild" (which is in Duke Nukem 3D), but more his generation rather than earlier boomer generation. I have to imagine that's why he liked "Hobbes and Nietzsche".
I appreciate somebody who knows German commenting of course. It's almost funny when author Tim Krabbe corrects Eric's German. I do understand in my limited, pidgin German that it's Rebe, not Reb. I don't think in English I even understand the difference between the vine and the vineplant. However, Eric like me was an insular American, and there is e. g. the surname Rebstock found in our genealogies [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]