This is amazing. I'm here for the gushing and the snark! The gushing context makes the snark so much better.
"It's your grandfather, not mine."
Are you quite sure about that? Your father, maybe. :P Uncle Voltaire, Wilhelmine?
Nature has created Frederick the Great for me.
Small correction: she has created Frederick *like* you. Frederick, meanwhile, is bad at recognizing his own reflection in a mirror, be it named Heinrich (lovely fic!) or Voltaire.
Also Voltaire hears about the Palladion and is less than impressed, presumably wondering whether he'll guest star in the next poem.
Algarotti: Join the club. I'm plotting my own desertion so I can get away while it's *just* an orgasm poem.
Since I don't have a hundred and fifty thousand villains in my service, I won't conduct war.
Fritz, quite accurately: If you did, you would TOTALLY be making war on all your many enemies. Don't get so high-and-mighty about my invasions.
(I agree with Fritz completely. The mirror works both ways.)
This dictionary may expand for quite a while; it's worth an article in the Encyclopedia.
This was awesome. I had seen a short excerpt of this quote but not the full thing. Thank you for this!
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Re: From our Parisian Correspondant in Sanssouci: Extra, extra!
Date: 2020-03-23 01:46 am (UTC)"It's your grandfather, not mine."
Are you quite sure about that? Your father, maybe. :P Uncle Voltaire, Wilhelmine?
Nature has created Frederick the Great for me.
Small correction: she has created Frederick *like* you. Frederick, meanwhile, is bad at recognizing his own reflection in a mirror, be it named Heinrich (lovely fic!) or Voltaire.
Also Voltaire hears about the Palladion and is less than impressed, presumably wondering whether he'll guest star in the next poem.
Algarotti: Join the club. I'm plotting my own desertion so I can get away while it's *just* an orgasm poem.
Since I don't have a hundred and fifty thousand villains in my service, I won't conduct war.
Fritz, quite accurately: If you did, you would TOTALLY be making war on all your many enemies. Don't get so high-and-mighty about my invasions.
(I agree with Fritz completely. The mirror works both ways.)
This dictionary may expand for quite a while; it's worth an article in the Encyclopedia.
This was awesome. I had seen a short excerpt of this quote but not the full thing. Thank you for this!