Thank you and selenak! This is amaaaaaaazing, as you said :)
Technically, Sophia Dorothea and Wilhelmina (Fritz's mother and sister, also in on the plot) were destroying the 1,500 letters (and destroying was the easy part; the hard part was rewriting them under the gun to be less incriminating) that Katte had forwarded them. We don't know *what* Katte was doing that kept him from escaping when he had the chance.
lol, thanks, I have added a note to the post :)
I'm not sure if you're using "sadism" in its sexual sense here, but just so your readers are clear, I wasn't. I was using the word in its generalized sense of emotional gratification from inflicting pain on others. I totally think FW was power tripping on making his son suffer and at the prospect of finally breaking his will, do not think he was getting off on it (ewww).
ewwww no, I am an innocent, that didn't actually occur to me! "Rationalized sadism" is a quote from you (that selenak picked up in a later comment) :P But I guess it is a reasonable conclusion given that "sexual hangups" comes right after it...
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Technically, Sophia Dorothea and Wilhelmina (Fritz's mother and sister, also in on the plot) were destroying the 1,500 letters (and destroying was the easy part; the hard part was rewriting them under the gun to be less incriminating) that Katte had forwarded them. We don't know *what* Katte was doing that kept him from escaping when he had the chance.
lol, thanks, I have added a note to the post :)
I'm not sure if you're using "sadism" in its sexual sense here, but just so your readers are clear, I wasn't. I was using the word in its generalized sense of emotional gratification from inflicting pain on others. I totally think FW was power tripping on making his son suffer and at the prospect of finally breaking his will, do not think he was getting off on it (ewww).
ewwww no, I am an innocent, that didn't actually occur to me! "Rationalized sadism" is a quote from you (that selenak picked up in a later comment) :P But I guess it is a reasonable conclusion given that "sexual hangups" comes right after it...