First of all, thank you, Mildred, so much for making writing the code that makes the Trier letters available.
You're welcome! I'm delighted that my coding skills have finally come in handy for other people, and not just my personal curiosity about our word count or 46 years of Fritz's movements. :P
The only complaint I have is directed against the Trier archive itself, which claims to be complete but as we've already found out in the past is really not.
I'm not certain it does claim that. I know I presented it that way initially, but that was in early days when I was much more ignorant. (We've all come a long way since then.) It certainly doesn't claim the political correspondence is complete, since that stops in 1782, and two more volumes have been published since then.
the Trier archive is based on a late 19th century works of Fritz edition, right?
Worse: mid 19th century. 1846-1856. Preuss was the compiler and editor. Some things, like the bulk of the Fredersdorf letters and the orgasm poem, weren't even available at the time.
If so, he got cured quickly of it by Big Bro, not to mention that he imprinted on Fritz' taste in literature for a life time.)
Interesting: Fritz might not have been playing lightside Dad here, but actually Wilhelmine. In Catt's memoirs, he credits Wilhelmine with teaching him to love 1) reading, and 2) work, and says she changed his life for the better. Again and again, you can see Fritz doing what was done to him with the best of intentions. Sometimes with the worst of intentions. But sometimes best.
(What I find fascinating: is he actually insulted that Heinrich gives him the silent treatment and doesn't love him for this whole interlude, or is he just pretending to be?)
Fritz? If Heinrich really was ignoring him and he wasn't just claiming that Heinrich was? Armchair psychology here, but I have to go with genuinely insulted. Fritz was the needy type. [ETA: Or as Wilhelmine put it, "I have always told you the King is very sensitive."]
So why doesn't he play the role of the King in that RPG?
That's an excellent question, now that you mention it. They must have had a realistic take on their respective strengths and weaknesses, i.e. which one was l'autre moi-meme.
Speaking of which! Remember MacDonogh? Winner of the Unreliable Biographer of the Decade award? He actually says "l'autre moi-meme" was Henricus Minor, not Henricus Major.
Which made me super curious to see the original context. I suppose the citation is in a Ziebura book you've returned to the library?
Friedrich demands Heinrich gets married, Heinrich eventually submits.
Is it true that this was the condition for releasing him from house arrest, i.e. eerie roleplay?
Re: The Heinrich Letters - Our Younger Days
You're welcome! I'm delighted that my coding skills have finally come in handy for other people, and not just my personal curiosity about our word count or 46 years of Fritz's movements. :P
The only complaint I have is directed against the Trier archive itself, which claims to be complete but as we've already found out in the past is really not.
I'm not certain it does claim that. I know I presented it that way initially, but that was in early days when I was much more ignorant. (We've all come a long way since then.) It certainly doesn't claim the political correspondence is complete, since that stops in 1782, and two more volumes have been published since then.
the Trier archive is based on a late 19th century works of Fritz edition, right?
Worse: mid 19th century. 1846-1856. Preuss was the compiler and editor. Some things, like the bulk of the Fredersdorf letters and the orgasm poem, weren't even available at the time.
If so, he got cured quickly of it by Big Bro, not to mention that he imprinted on Fritz' taste in literature for a life time.)
Interesting: Fritz might not have been playing lightside Dad here, but actually Wilhelmine. In Catt's memoirs, he credits Wilhelmine with teaching him to love 1) reading, and 2) work, and says she changed his life for the better. Again and again, you can see Fritz doing what was done to him with the best of intentions. Sometimes with the worst of intentions. But sometimes best.
(What I find fascinating: is he actually insulted that Heinrich gives him the silent treatment and doesn't love him for this whole interlude, or is he just pretending to be?)
Fritz? If Heinrich really was ignoring him and he wasn't just claiming that Heinrich was? Armchair psychology here, but I have to go with genuinely insulted. Fritz was the needy type. [ETA: Or as Wilhelmine put it, "I have always told you the King is very sensitive."]
So why doesn't he play the role of the King in that RPG?
That's an excellent question, now that you mention it. They must have had a realistic take on their respective strengths and weaknesses, i.e. which one was l'autre moi-meme.
Speaking of which! Remember MacDonogh? Winner of the Unreliable Biographer of the Decade award? He actually says "l'autre moi-meme" was Henricus Minor, not Henricus Major.
Which made me super curious to see the original context. I suppose the citation is in a Ziebura book you've returned to the library?
Friedrich demands Heinrich gets married, Heinrich eventually submits.
Is it true that this was the condition for releasing him from house arrest, i.e. eerie roleplay?