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alfvaenInteresting. Listening to this Neu! CD(from the library), I happened to notice that one of the tracks is named "Leb Wohl". This caught my attention because in Stephen R. Donaldson's excellent "Gap" series, one of the major characters is named "Hashi Lebwohl". It hadn't occurred to me that it might have meaning, though.
A quick search shows that "Leb Wohl" is German for "Farewell". I might even hazard a guess that "Leb"=~"leave, depart", and "Wohl"=~"well".
Now I wonder what, if anything, this is supposed to say about Hashi Lebwohl's character. It's been a while, but I recall he was a scientist, and a fairly amoral one at that. The "Gap" series was also supposed to map onto The Ring of the Nibelungen, and perhaps this is a hint as to who he corresponds to there. (Somebody out there has probably figured out the mapping...have to look for that later.)
A quick search shows that "Leb Wohl" is German for "Farewell". I might even hazard a guess that "Leb"=~"leave, depart", and "Wohl"=~"well".
Now I wonder what, if anything, this is supposed to say about Hashi Lebwohl's character. It's been a while, but I recall he was a scientist, and a fairly amoral one at that. The "Gap" series was also supposed to map onto The Ring of the Nibelungen, and perhaps this is a hint as to who he corresponds to there. (Somebody out there has probably figured out the mapping...have to look for that later.)
