I can't speak for the singing, but the acting was great, wow both of them. \o/
What was the result of his experiment??
Ahahahaha. About what you'd expect. "Valory was struck by his maniacal coffee drinking. By his own admission he consumed ‘only six or seven cups in the morning now … and after lunch just one pot’. It had not always been so. He once drank forty cups in an attempt to see if he could do without sleep. His body went through such agonies as a result that it was years before he believed he had fully recovered from the experiment."
It's always been one of my favorite anecdotes about him. In fact it was one of the things that made me start crushing on him drew me to him when I was in high school. Anyone who 1) wants to do without sleep because there's too much to do, and 2) doesn't assume normal people's limits apply to himself, is a man after my own heart. I've never touched caffeine because I expect it would go badly, but if I thought there was a chance I could do without sleep and it not be catastrophic, I would be all over it. As it is, I reluctantly do my best to get my eight hours of sleep a night because it gets me the best results. But I always think fondly of young Fritz telling himself, "I know no one in the history of ever has done without sleep, but they just weren't dedicated enough!"
Also, ask me how he took his coffee. :P
Spoiler: in a way that became notorious for its total WTFery. He took it with mustard and peppercorns. All his life.
Because...nobody knows why. Bravado, taste-blindness, and "strong tastes" have all been advanced as possibilities. My own guess, besides bravado (which would be totally in character for both me and him), is that it made the coffee even more effective as a stimulant. If you've been forced to concede a limit on the amount of coffee you can consume, you work around that by making it stronger in other ways, so that you're wide awake at four am to start your jam-packed day of work, concerts, warfare, and more work.
If I were an eighteenth-century monarch that badly needed a therapist, you might see me doing the same.
(That coffee with mustard and peppercorns works like this is an untested hypothesis that shall remain untested, but it makes as much sense to me as anything.)
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What was the result of his experiment??
Ahahahaha. About what you'd expect. "Valory was struck by his maniacal coffee drinking. By his own admission he consumed ‘only six or seven cups in the morning now … and after lunch just one pot’. It had not always been so. He once drank forty cups in an attempt to see if he could do without sleep. His body went through such agonies as a result that it was years before he believed he had fully recovered from the experiment."
It's always been one of my favorite anecdotes about him. In fact it was one of the things that
made me start crushing on himdrew me to him when I was in high school. Anyone who 1) wants to do without sleep because there's too much to do, and 2) doesn't assume normal people's limits apply to himself, is a man after my own heart. I've never touched caffeine because I expect it would go badly, but if I thought there was a chance I could do without sleep and it not be catastrophic, I would be all over it. As it is, I reluctantly do my best to get my eight hours of sleep a night because it gets me the best results. But I always think fondly of young Fritz telling himself, "I know no one in the history of ever has done without sleep, but they just weren't dedicated enough!"Also, ask me how he took his coffee. :P
Spoiler: in a way that became notorious for its total WTFery. He took it with mustard and peppercorns. All his life.
Because...nobody knows why. Bravado, taste-blindness, and "strong tastes" have all been advanced as possibilities. My own guess, besides bravado (which would be totally in character for both me and him), is that it made the coffee even more effective as a stimulant. If you've been forced to concede a limit on the amount of coffee you can consume, you work around that by making it stronger in other ways, so that you're wide awake at four am to start your jam-packed day of work, concerts, warfare, and more work.
If I were an eighteenth-century monarch that badly needed a therapist, you might see me doing the same.
(That coffee with mustard and peppercorns works like this is an untested hypothesis that shall remain untested, but it makes as much sense to me as anything.)