I keep seeing the thing that FW swallowed alternately described (or translated) as a golden "shoelace" or a golden "shoe buckle". These are very different items! And considering it was on display in Berlin in the 19th century...you'd think people could agree on what it was? Is there a German (or French) word that can mean either? Shoe-fastener?
Not really. Shoelaces are Schnürsenkel, whereas shoe buckle is Schuhschnalle. Maybe Tiny Terror FW swallowed both?
Even Count Seckendorf had to smuggle in books to Wusterhausen, lest he be suspected of wasting on reading time that might have been better employed in hunting, drinking or praying.
LOL. See, there were Austrian books to be had which were not code for money, Fritz! Zimmermann: this is hilarious. „As we all know, Voltaire and countless other French bastards as well as some German ones have slandered our noble King by claiming he was into men. Even I, reader, had my doubts when someone claiming to have been his lover told me there was guy on guy action until shortly before the 7 Years War. But really, this is all nonsense. Let me things straight, and I do mean STRAIGHT. Fritz loved women. Adored them, couldn’t get enough oft hem. But when poor Doris got whipped and locked up, he was traumatized. (I don’t name Doris Ritter by name, I just say „a girl cruelly punished by FW who didn’t even have sex with him“.) Never ever again would he endanger a woman he actually liked! So he went to whores instead. Lots of whores, because he was so utterly manly and potent. Inevitably, STD ensued. Fritz then asked one of his dastardly Schwedt cousins for help. Heinrich von Schwedt made him consult that utter quack Malchow, who put him through a cure which was no such thing. Fritz, thinking himself cured, then married EC with a clear conscience. And sure, he was a bit disgruntled about his father having forced the marriage on him, but he couldn’t help but falling in love with her, seeing as she was pretty and devoted and docile. For six months, there was utter married bliss and sex sex sex. Then, alas, the STD returned. Now we all know our noble king was a man of action, and as ruthless towards himself as to everyone else. To protect his beloved wife, he had an operation done. This operation actually just stopped his semen flowing, i.e. it was sterilization by cutting off the semen transmission, but the quack who did it was clumsy, and so Fritz thought he got castrated! Which he totally was not. I can’t emphasize enough that he was NOT a eunuch, he just thought he was, got major body issues, and never ever had sex with anyone again. However, being a satirist himself, he knew there’d be major satire to fear from all those people envious of his manliness. So he decided to throw them off the scent by faking an interest in gay Greeks, gay Romans, gay poetry and gay people. It worked, too. Not that he ever stopped loving the ladies in his mind. Just look at what happened with Barbarina. Can you explain that other than him wanting her and believing himself unable to actually have her? You can’t. He even kept her portrait in his bedroom. Shed a tear for all the Fritz/Barbarina action that didn’t happen, readers. Our King even forbade anyone to look at his naked body after he died to protect his secret. The only reason why I am now divulging it is that those French bastards won’t shut up with their gay insinuations, and it’s my patriotic duty to set things STRAIGHT.
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I keep seeing the thing that FW swallowed alternately described (or translated) as a golden "shoelace" or a golden "shoe buckle". These are very different items! And considering it was on display in Berlin in the 19th century...you'd think people could agree on what it was? Is there a German (or French) word that can mean either? Shoe-fastener?
Not really. Shoelaces are Schnürsenkel, whereas shoe buckle is Schuhschnalle. Maybe Tiny Terror FW swallowed both?
Even Count Seckendorf had to smuggle in books to Wusterhausen, lest he be suspected of wasting on reading time that might have been better employed in hunting, drinking or praying.
LOL. See, there were Austrian books to be had which were not code for money, Fritz!
Zimmermann: this is hilarious.
„As we all know, Voltaire and countless other French bastards as well as some German ones have slandered our noble King by claiming he was into men. Even I, reader, had my doubts when someone claiming to have been his lover told me there was guy on guy action until shortly before the 7 Years War. But really, this is all nonsense. Let me things straight, and I do mean STRAIGHT.
Fritz loved women. Adored them, couldn’t get enough oft hem. But when poor Doris got whipped and locked up, he was traumatized. (I don’t name Doris Ritter by name, I just say „a girl cruelly punished by FW who didn’t even have sex with him“.) Never ever again would he endanger a woman he actually liked! So he went to whores instead. Lots of whores, because he was so utterly manly and potent. Inevitably, STD ensued.
Fritz then asked one of his dastardly Schwedt cousins for help. Heinrich von Schwedt made him consult that utter quack Malchow, who put him through a cure which was no such thing. Fritz, thinking himself cured, then married EC with a clear conscience. And sure, he was a bit disgruntled about his father having forced the marriage on him, but he couldn’t help but falling in love with her, seeing as she was pretty and devoted and docile. For six months, there was utter married bliss and sex sex sex. Then, alas, the STD returned.
Now we all know our noble king was a man of action, and as ruthless towards himself as to everyone else. To protect his beloved wife, he had an operation done. This operation actually just stopped his semen flowing, i.e. it was sterilization by cutting off the semen transmission, but the quack who did it was clumsy, and so Fritz thought he got castrated! Which he totally was not. I can’t emphasize enough that he was NOT a eunuch, he just thought he was, got major body issues, and never ever had sex with anyone again. However, being a satirist himself, he knew there’d be major satire to fear from all those people envious of his manliness. So he decided to throw them off the scent by faking an interest in gay Greeks, gay Romans, gay poetry and gay people. It worked, too.
Not that he ever stopped loving the ladies in his mind. Just look at what happened with Barbarina. Can you explain that other than him wanting her and believing himself unable to actually have her? You can’t. He even kept her portrait in his bedroom. Shed a tear for all the Fritz/Barbarina action that didn’t happen, readers. Our King even forbade anyone to look at his naked body after he died to protect his secret. The only reason why I am now divulging it is that those French bastards won’t shut up with their gay insinuations, and it’s my patriotic duty to set things STRAIGHT.