Frederick the Great discussion post 9

[cahn]

...I leave you guys alone for one weekend and it's time for a new Fritz post, lol!

I'm gonna reply to the previous post comments but I guess new letter-reading, etc. should go in this one :)

Frederick the Great links

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Re: Brotherly Conduct II: The Main Act

[cahn]

Because reading those letters, the brother who keeps being riled up and lashing out is clearly not AW.

AW's letters are just so heartbreaking! No lashing out at all :((((((

OK, that Lehndorff journal entry, in the context of all this, is amazing. By which I mean illuminating and heartbreaking and I'm really glad we have it.

Re: Brotherly Conduct II: The Main Act

[mildred_of_midgard]

OK, that Lehndorff journal entry, in the context of all this, is amazing. By which I mean illuminating and heartbreaking and I'm really glad we have it.

Yeessss.

But I don't promise anything if I ever get to be King, because then the Devil takes hold of one.

You mean the same AW who wrote to Ulrike: "If I was a Swedish senator, I would give the King the power to do good, but I would also use the laws to limit his authority to stop him from committing injustices"? Yeah. That kind of self-awareness checks out.

Re: Brotherly Conduct II: The Main Act

[selenak]

That kind of self-awareness checks out.

*nods* That's why one of the few beefs I have with Christian von Krockow's double portrait of Fritz and Heinrich is that he says AW was "good-hearted if dull, and not worth writing about". Look here, Krockow, he may not have been a polymath or a genius in other regards, but he was anything but a dumb jock.

Re: Brotherly Conduct II: The Main Act

[cahn]

I remember he was also the one Lehndorff said didn't like hunting, right? :(

Re: Brotherly Conduct II: The Main Act

[selenak]

Yes, on the occasion where Ferdinand hit a farmer by accident.