Frederick the Great, discussion post 6
Dec. 2nd, 2019 02:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cahn...I think we need another one (seriously, you guys, this is THE BEST) and I'd better make it now before I disappear into the wilds of music performance.
(also, as of this week there are two Frederician fics in the yuletide archive and eeeeeeeeeee)
(huh, only one of them is actually tagged with Frederick the Great even though two with Maria Theresia and Wilhelmine, eeeeeee this is awesome I CAN'T WAIT)
Frederick the Great masterpost
(also, as of this week there are two Frederician fics in the yuletide archive and eeeeeeeeeee)
(huh, only one of them is actually tagged with Frederick the Great even though two with Maria Theresia and Wilhelmine, eeeeeee this is awesome I CAN'T WAIT)
Frederick the Great masterpost
Re: Voltaire memoirs II
Date: 2019-12-22 01:33 pm (UTC)(ETA: Also a variation of Circe, as her enchantments eventually get lifted. I wonder why Voltaire didn't go directly for the Circe/Odysseus comparison? (/ETA)
Voltaire complaining about Doris Ritter‘s looks will never cease to amaze me in its, well, Voltaire-ness. I mean, it‘s besides the point in any case - the point being that she‘s a victim of royal injustice however she looks - but complaining that a woman who has gone through three years in the workhouse and public whippings and then somehow has managed to build a life for herself afterwards, with a husband and children, does not look like a romantic heroine is, well, to misquote Shaffer‘s Mozart: What can one say but - Voltaire!
Mutual handkissing is probably as physical as these two ever got, and somehow sums it up.
Re: Voltaire memoirs II
Date: 2019-12-22 10:10 pm (UTC)"Who might resist a Monarch, a Hero, a Poet, a Musician, a Philosopher, who pretended too to love me, and whom I thought I also loved...My Frederic-Alcina"
I wonder why Voltaire didn't go directly for the Circe/Odysseus comparison?
Good question. Reading Passionate Minds, I kept finding myself thinking, "This guy is Odysseus!"
Voltaire complaining about Doris Ritter's looks will never cease to amaze me in its, well, Voltaire-ness. I mean, it's besides the point in any case - the point being that she's a victim of royal injustice however she looks
A woman is not worth anything unless she's good looking. CLEARLY.
Mutual handkissing is probably as physical as these two ever got, and somehow sums it up.
Most emotionally charged hand-kissing ever.
Oh, speaking of which, I forgot to report this line from Voltaire: "The King, his son, who loved handsome men, and not gigantic..."
Granted that he never knew FW and thus this might be accidental, but the direct parallel suggesting repressed homoeroticism is just--wow.
Re: Voltaire memoirs II
Date: 2019-12-29 01:04 am (UTC)