Which would fit with the general Obelisk theme of "People who were fucked over by Fritz" in a metaphorical, not literal way better.
Yeah, I'm going to go with "probably the military context," but you never know. At least one biographer seems to think the Marwitz episode is when Heinrich's hatred of Fritz started, so..."Oh, how I hate you, let this obelisk count the ways."
Btw, it occurred to me that on the subject of the Fritz/Heinrich and FW/Fritz parallels, my feelings in this fandom can be summed up thusly:
Re Fritz: Hate the sin, love the sinner. Re FW: HATE the sinner!
That's fair, right? :P
the four letters from Fritz to Heinrich re: Marwitz the hot page were written in March 1746
My sources also say March 1746. I went to look at his personal correspondence to reread the letters in question (I don't remember them being fully enlightening last time, but weak French + Google was probably not helping)--and I couldn't find them. I had "Marwitz" in my search history, proving that I did look them up before, but this time I'm only seeing a handful of letters from 1745-1746, and none of them seem to involve hot pages, and none of the 1746 ones are dated.
I'm terribly confused, because I could have sworn I read at least the letter where Fritz was saying "gonorrhea and flabby body" to Heinrich, and have some vague memory of the letter beyond that line...and yet now I can't find it. Perhaps I read it quoted somewhere else? I know I was looking into the lust triangle episode a while back. Anyway. I'm sure we'll get it sorted one day, thanks to your diligent efforts!
Also. March 1746 is not just the time of the Wilhelmine/Margrave/Marwitz love triangle. I *just* realized. It's also, generally speaking, the time of Darget.
As recounted here, December 1745 is when the French send Darget to (allegedly) try to seduce Fritz into not abandoning their alliance; January 1746 is when Darget comes to Berlin to make an alliance of his own be Fritz's librarian. So now I'm imagining...
Fritz: Look, I just won a war and my people are calling me "the Great"--of course I'm super revved up. Ima look at some pretty boys and build a palace, fuck yeah. \o/
Chronology is everything. :-PPP
(Also Fritz around this time: Hey, Algarotti!)
Apparantly he liked to look at the occasional corpse in Rheinsberg. But not until some make-up had been put on the dead fellow to make him look less corpse-like.
...I mean, at this point all I can do is stare at him and go, "I guess that's far from the weirdest thing a Hohenzollern ever did. You do you, Heinrich." (Do you need some therapy?)
it's sweet, but also yet another example of 'you two were a scandal that never happened due to your orientation'
Oh, you Hohenzollerns.
So when you said Heinrich and AW had a relationship of the same intensity as Fritz/Wilhelmine, and this time one has the right orientation and the other is bi according to at least one gossipy sensationalist...does that mean Heinrich/AW scandal fodder yes/no/maybe?
Re: More Book Reports: AW bio, Fritz and Heinrich double portrait/lengthy essay
Yeah, I'm going to go with "probably the military context," but you never know. At least one biographer seems to think the Marwitz episode is when Heinrich's hatred of Fritz started, so..."Oh, how I hate you, let this obelisk count the ways."
Btw, it occurred to me that on the subject of the Fritz/Heinrich and FW/Fritz parallels, my feelings in this fandom can be summed up thusly:
Re Fritz: Hate the sin, love the sinner.
Re FW: HATE the sinner!
That's fair, right? :P
the four letters from Fritz to Heinrich re: Marwitz the hot page were written in March 1746
My sources also say March 1746. I went to look at his personal correspondence to reread the letters in question (I don't remember them being fully enlightening last time, but weak French + Google was probably not helping)--and I couldn't find them. I had "Marwitz" in my search history, proving that I did look them up before, but this time I'm only seeing a handful of letters from 1745-1746, and none of them seem to involve hot pages, and none of the 1746 ones are dated.
I'm terribly confused, because I could have sworn I read at least the letter where Fritz was saying "gonorrhea and flabby body" to Heinrich, and have some vague memory of the letter beyond that line...and yet now I can't find it. Perhaps I read it quoted somewhere else? I know I was looking into the lust triangle episode a while back. Anyway. I'm sure we'll get it sorted one day, thanks to your diligent efforts!
Also. March 1746 is not just the time of the Wilhelmine/Margrave/Marwitz love triangle. I *just* realized. It's also, generally speaking, the time of Darget.
As recounted here, December 1745 is when the French send Darget to (allegedly) try to seduce Fritz into not abandoning their alliance; January 1746 is when Darget comes to Berlin to
make an alliance of his ownbe Fritz's librarian. So now I'm imagining...Fritz: Look, I just won a war and my people are calling me "the Great"--of course I'm super revved up. Ima look at some pretty boys and build a palace, fuck yeah. \o/
Chronology is everything. :-PPP
(Also Fritz around this time: Hey, Algarotti!)
Apparantly he liked to look at the occasional corpse in Rheinsberg. But not until some make-up had been put on the dead fellow to make him look less corpse-like.
...I mean, at this point all I can do is stare at him and go, "I guess that's far from the weirdest thing a Hohenzollern ever did. You do you, Heinrich." (Do you need some therapy?)
it's sweet, but also yet another example of 'you two were a scandal that never happened due to your orientation'
Oh, you Hohenzollerns.
So when you said Heinrich and AW had a relationship of the same intensity as Fritz/Wilhelmine, and this time one has the right orientation and the other is bi according to at least one gossipy sensationalist...does that mean Heinrich/AW scandal fodder yes/no/maybe?