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Why Spartikus? There was the historical figure Spartacus, who led a slave rebellion against the Romans in 73 B.C. Also, a fine Kubrick film about the same, where Laurence Olivier queries Tony Curtis whether he like snails or clams. (I never bought Tony’s reaction). But alas, note the spelling – which I’m often accused of misspelling. So, if not Roman gladiators, what? There were the Spartikists, a communistesque group in 1919 Berlin who fought street battles with the right-wing Freikorps. But no, I’m not remotely a communist.
The truth is more mundane and nerdy. In a Play-by-mail strategy game I was played in the distant past, a position opened for Spanish rebels, and I adopted the moniker to torture the militia-type Americans who would be my in-game foes. (I also pretended to be a German teenager with a comically inept grasp of English). And thus my pseudonym was born.
As such things go it’s pretty pompous sounding, but why sometimes such things choose you.
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