That, and he may be following social norms at least in writing.
Very true. And if you do distinguish between "love" and "close to"--and I'm not sure I do, but I can see where other people might--then it makes perfect sense.
(Though again: Walpole, son of a former British PM, sat in a glass house there. Didn't Britain "aquire" India at that point of time, Walpole?)
It has been pointed out that the only thing Fritz did that was so shocking was do to white people close to home what everyone considered unremarkable when done overseas to non-white people.
Fritz as Michael Corleone - it won't surprise you that "I've written fanfiction about Corleone sibling relationships.
It won't indeed, because I had already read it and left kudos!
Agree re Fritz, Heinrich, and coups. Come think of it, poisoning Fritz with an opiate overdose would be particularly evil...
cahn, Fritz carried a small box containing a lethal dose of opium in case he ever wanted to commit suicide. He showed it to Catt (who claims he was the Only One so privileged, of which I have always been highly skeptical). He's also, as we know, recently been writing "want to commit suicide letters together?" to Wilhelmine, and had to be talked out of suicide by various people, including Voltaire, just a couple years before.
A sufficiently motivated Heinrich could make this look like suicide, is what I'm saying.
Oh, ha. Remember when I was half-jokingly wondering what sibling Glasow was hitting on? AU where it was Heinrich, and Glasow was trying to make his boyfriend regent.
Hmm, the timing. Lehndorff's entry about the Glasow scandal is from April 1757. Kolin, when Fritz starts being suicidal, is June 1757. The letter to Wilhelmine is September. Unless he was also talking suicide before that and I've missed it.
This isn't actually more chronological fudging than I did for "Pulvis et Umbra," where I moved around events from February through June of 1747 as needed for the story.
Genderbent Heinrich is also evil in a different way. Especially since your line "Michael, as a woman, given no opportunity to use that cold relentless mind of his for anything but dinner calculations, would have committed suicide" has always stuck with me.
Re: The Heinrich Letters - War Time
Very true. And if you do distinguish between "love" and "close to"--and I'm not sure I do, but I can see where other people might--then it makes perfect sense.
(Though again: Walpole, son of a former British PM, sat in a glass house there. Didn't Britain "aquire" India at that point of time, Walpole?)
It has been pointed out that the only thing Fritz did that was so shocking was do to white people close to home what everyone considered unremarkable when done overseas to non-white people.
Fritz as Michael Corleone - it won't surprise you that "I've written fanfiction about Corleone sibling relationships.
It won't indeed, because I had already read it and left kudos!
Agree re Fritz, Heinrich, and coups. Come think of it, poisoning Fritz with an opiate overdose would be particularly evil...
A sufficiently motivated Heinrich could make this look like suicide, is what I'm saying.
Oh, ha. Remember when I was half-jokingly wondering what sibling Glasow was hitting on? AU where it was Heinrich, and Glasow was trying to make his boyfriend regent.
Hmm, the timing. Lehndorff's entry about the Glasow scandal is from April 1757. Kolin, when Fritz starts being suicidal, is June 1757. The letter to Wilhelmine is September. Unless he was also talking suicide before that and I've missed it.
This isn't actually more chronological fudging than I did for "Pulvis et Umbra," where I moved around events from February through June of 1747 as needed for the story.
Genderbent Heinrich is also evil in a different way. Especially since your line "Michael, as a woman, given no opportunity to use that cold relentless mind of his for anything but dinner calculations, would have committed suicide" has always stuck with me.