ROTWANG GIP

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I swear to god I just happened to find this image on my hard drive a minute ago. It's Rotwang, the batshit insane cyberneticist from Fritz Lang's "Metropolis", and a template for the mad-scientist visual stereotype that would develop over the 20th century. It's pronounced ROHT-VAHNG but believe me he's heard it all.

I am fixing problems with exploding filehandles. It causes me to find things like this.

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[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Oh!

Someone on my friendslist, bibliogirl, often refers to her husband rotwang. I mean, I knew that wasn't his name, but I never really wondered where it came from. And now I know!