but does it otherwise answer your question about whether the person dictating the Puncta knew about the specific occasions on which Katte tried to dissuade Fritz and what he supposedly said on those occasions?
Yes. I haven't made a sentence for sentence comparison, but the two instances mentioned in the Puncta - one in Saxony, as I recall - are mentioned here as well, I think.
As for Absalom, we know from the appendices in Forster and Preuss FW used the comparison himself (which I didn't know when I had the official Prussian propaganda use it as an Explanation for Fritz' death in my AU! -, and I think it's incredibly telling as to where the Puncta are coming from. Because Absalom didn't try to escape David. He led an uprising and "turned the hearts of the men of Israel" against his father. This is FW's fear. I doubt it would have occured to Katte on his own.
I doubt it would have occured to Katte on his own.
That's very true. This letter is looking more and more dictated. It must have been written in Berlin, not Küstrin.
Poor Fritz, isn't allowed to be close to his sister the first time he sees her after all this, and can't even get a proper goodbye letter from his boyfriend. Just another message from FW in bf's handwriting (which adds so many layers of painful that it hurts just to think about).
Let's hope that there were some serious coded messages in there, beyond "Just save your head, Fritz!"
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Re: Katte! - Species facti 2
Yes. I haven't made a sentence for sentence comparison, but the two instances mentioned in the Puncta - one in Saxony, as I recall - are mentioned here as well, I think.
As for Absalom, we know from the appendices in Forster and Preuss FW used the comparison himself (which I didn't know when I had the official Prussian propaganda use it as an Explanation for Fritz' death in my AU! -, and I think it's incredibly telling as to where the Puncta are coming from. Because Absalom didn't try to escape David. He led an uprising and "turned the hearts of the men of Israel" against his father. This is FW's fear. I doubt it would have occured to Katte on his own.
Re: Katte! - Species facti 2
That's very true. This letter is looking more and more dictated. It must have been written in Berlin, not Küstrin.
Poor Fritz, isn't allowed to be close to his sister the first time he sees her after all this, and can't even get a proper goodbye letter from his boyfriend. Just another message from FW in bf's handwriting (which adds so many layers of painful that it hurts just to think about).
Let's hope that there were some serious coded messages in there, beyond "Just save your head, Fritz!"