Nibelung Code
a.k.a. Der Kodex des Nibelungen
Author: John Flanagan
Tags: #soc.motss
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Nibelung Code is a soc.motss joke code by way of Richard
Wagner’s Der Ring des
Nibelungen.
---------------------Der Kodex des Nibelungen---------------------------
Feel like you spend your whole life toiling away in a dark, damp cave, doing the bidding of others, only to have the fruits of your labor wrested from your grasp by capricious would-be gods, or slip through your fingers due to your own short-sighted bungling? Have you considered the possibility that you are living the life of a Nibelung?
Perhaps you ought to.
Nibelungs, for those who consider themselves above such things as Wagnerian opera, are the hapless cave-dwellers at the bottom of the totem pole in Wagner’s Der_Ring_des_Nibelungen. They are some of the more miserably desperate characters in a four-day opera cycle chock full of miserably desperate characters whose only hope for respite lies in the annihilation of the world as they know it. (If you are a Tolkien fan, think Gollum (and stay away from me.))
The following code, still in development, offers a means to evaluate the extent to which your life has been reduced to that of a troglodyte. I may finish it someday, if I ever get the time.