selenak: (Wilhelmine)

Re: Catt on MT

[personal profile] selenak 2020-02-11 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
That's not to say it's not used somewhere else, especially since it's Fritz talking about the Pompadour to MT letter he's just composed and listing the three main actors. I've never read it; I imagine there's a copy of it extant somewhere?

At a guess, it could be among the ouevres postumes in Trier.

Also, thank you for this compare and contrast! „Carogne Apostolique“ I‘ll grant Catt as likely to hail from Fritz and not from him, if only because Catt doesn‘t strike me as the type to create invectives. And „for all the harm she has done me“ sounds just so very Fritzian that I’ll concede it as likely, too. (And entirely in the spirit of his „I‘m Orpheus, MT, Pompadour and Elizabeth are the maenads tearing me apart“ in the letters.) Otoh, boo, hiss, Catt, for adding all the slut shaming of everyone else and to change it from a praise of capability and talent to a praise of morals to the third quote. Lying (Calvinist) liar who lies indeed.