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mildred_of_midgard ([personal profile] mildred_of_midgard) wrote in [personal profile] cahn 2020-01-17 04:14 pm (UTC)

Re: Toppings of all types, continued

it sounds like Fritz’s condition was fairly acute...

He certainly talked about it with rokoko frankness. Voltaire even worked it into a poem!

This is me reading saucy innuendo into our smitten diarist’s use of “height” in “my heart feels the whole height of this pleasure” to convey the following:

I see. Well, one thing to keep in mind is that this diary has been translated from French into German into English, so it's not a given that any word overlapping in meaning with "physical height" was used in the original. But it's fair game for playful innuendo!

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