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 :)

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Re: Random things

[mildred_of_midgard]

More random things.

I can't help dropping these two passages I ran across as I clean up (getting closer!):

1776: Les Anglais ont battu leurs colonies à l'ile de Terre-Longue, près de la Nouvelle - York; les colonies ont perdu 3000 hommes et les Anglais 300. S'ils continuent ainsi, ils pourront peut - être subjuguer les Américains dans une couple d'années. Tout cela peut nous être très indifférent; en attendant, le tabac hausse prodigieusement de prix, ce qui ne m'accommode pas.

Fritz, we're just trying to help you cut down on that tobacco consumption! Like Mara and Cocceji and Marwitz and Kaphengst etc., it's for your own good!

1777: L'apothicaire, devenu bibliothécaire, est partide Berlin en répandant de petites larmes. Je ne sais, mon cher frère, si elles étaient d'amour pour quelque belle qu'il quitte, ou de dépit de quitter ce pays, sans l'avoir vu détruit. Lorsqu'on proposait dans le Sénat de l'ancienne Rome quelque grande affaire, Caton le Censoeur, après avoir opiné, ajoutait toujours: „Mon avis est qu'on détruise Carthage." Il y a beaucoup de ces soi-disants Catons à Vienne, qui, changeant la phrase, au lieu de nommer Carthage,
la remplacent par Berlin.

The innocent, self-pitying victim of his neighbors strikes again. I know Fritz was INNOCENT! I tell you, INNOCENT! of the Seven Years' War from day one until his dying breath, but I'm still struck by one of the letters to Wilhelmine (I think?) that I ran into while checking for bugs in my script, the letter in which he points out that if three private individuals ganged up and assaulted some poor schmuck minding his own business, it would be a matter for the law courts! Um, yes, Fritz, as would it be if one neighbor stole another neighbor's property in the first place. It's because there is no international court of law that your neighbors are having to try to restore the status quo ante 1740 on their own. Yes, with interest.

Okay, back to work. Almost there!

Re: Random things

[cahn]

Lol. The American Revolution, yes, it's all about you, Fritz!

(Heh, your being at work on this has given me a chance to actually catch up!)

Re: Random things

[mildred_of_midgard]

I know I in 2020 and Fritz in 1776 have a very different perspective on that conflict, but I was really enjoying his ability to make it all about him and his addiction. :D

And now I'm behind! I still need to check it for bugs, reply to your Émilie write-ups, and in that time, there's been a post 10 with new comments I haven't even *read*, and I've gotten a gift fic from selenak that I also haven't read! (Go check it out.)

And I still need to compile all the new Peter Keith info into a Rheinsberg post, which will have to wait until tomorrow. Depending on whether you guys slow down enough to let me catch up, I also want to put together that intro chronology for Rheinsberg that I haven't forgotten about. (I also have more stuff I want to OCR, but man, I need a break from manual cleanup and possibly more bribes. :P That was some tedium.)