What I meant was that he wanted to not have the anger management issues, and he repeatedly said he kept trying to get them under control, but repeatedly failed, because he'd been fucked up in childhood. And he *wanted* better quality relationships, including with various members of his family (not including EC), and couldn't always figure out how. The people I know and know of also want to get better, but even with medication and decades of therapy don't always manage it. Reprogramming your brain after the formative years is *hard*.
You can bet Heinrich pointed that out, too. Big Brother wasn't amused.
Yep, and nope.
Anyway, Heinrich's romantic/sexual track record is the one thing which makes me at least consider the possibility Fritz wasn't acting purely out of spite in the four Marwitz (male) letters.
Oh, yeah. That was definitely on my mind when I proposed that maybe Fritz was maybe trying to save him from himself (in the most unlikely-to-succeed possible way) and then had to give up when it didn't succeed (shocker).
clearly haven't heard of Elizabeth Taylor, which was the association I immediately had when reading about Heinrich's visits in Russia.
For those of us who've heard of her but live under a rock and don't know anything about her, would you care to elaborate? Look, knowing far more about the eighteenth century than the twentieth goes all the way back to childhood with me. :P ETA: See also these anecdotes.
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Re: Oh Brother! More impressions of the Heinrich bio
Date: 2019-12-04 12:04 am (UTC)What I meant was that he wanted to not have the anger management issues, and he repeatedly said he kept trying to get them under control, but repeatedly failed, because he'd been fucked up in childhood. And he *wanted* better quality relationships, including with various members of his family (not including EC), and couldn't always figure out how. The people I know and know of also want to get better, but even with medication and decades of therapy don't always manage it. Reprogramming your brain after the formative years is *hard*.
You can bet Heinrich pointed that out, too. Big Brother wasn't amused.
Yep, and nope.
Anyway, Heinrich's romantic/sexual track record is the one thing which makes me at least consider the possibility Fritz wasn't acting purely out of spite in the four Marwitz (male) letters.
Oh, yeah. That was definitely on my mind when I proposed that maybe Fritz was maybe trying to save him from himself (in the most unlikely-to-succeed possible way) and then had to give up when it didn't succeed (shocker).
clearly haven't heard of Elizabeth Taylor, which was the association I immediately had when reading about Heinrich's visits in Russia.
For those of us who've heard of her but live under a rock and don't know anything about her, would you care to elaborate? Look, knowing far more about the eighteenth century than the twentieth goes all the way back to childhood with me. :P ETA: See also these anecdotes.