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Engelhardt - elte - Dec 4, 2015
A story of unsucessfully coping with life.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/12/03/457124796/death-by-coconut-a-story-of-food-obsession-gone-too-far
"He believed that since the coconut grew high up in the tree, closest to God and closest to the sun, it was godlike," says Kracht. "And since it had hair and looked like a human head, he thought it came closest to being a man. According to his rather crackpot theory, to be a cocovore was to be a theophage – or eater of God."
RE: Engelhardt - C C - Dec 6, 2015
Quote:[...] scrawny, bearded man in a checked loincloth standing under a palm tree. "He looked like a proto-hippie, and very modern," Kracht told The Salt.
Coincidentally, it had crossed my mind that his "kookoo for coconuts" sun-sect activities would have been concurrent with the wandervogel movement. But apparently there was no cross-pollination between the two.
RE: Engelhardt - elte - Dec 6, 2015
Wandervogel lasted longer than the hippie movement of the 1960s, it seems. WWII had a deleterious effect on wandervogel.