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mildred_of_midgard ([personal profile] mildred_of_midgard) wrote in [personal profile] cahn 2020-05-15 03:59 am (UTC)

Re: Heinrich readthrough!

And now Kaphengst has syphilis!

[personal profile] cahn, when you get to the "French sickness" in chapter 10, that's syphilis. Everyone had to name it after someone else's country, in order to throw shade on their morals. Because xenophobia and disease outbreaks go together.

*looks around*

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

Anyway, I guess Kaphengst can have syphilis because he's an unintelligent money waster exploiting Heinrich, and Marwitz can't have gonorrhea because he's a competent military man on the obelisk and "first love"? I don't think that's how it works, Ziebura...

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