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!
Re: Toppings of all types, continued
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!