The Fritz the terrier section especially has some prose verging on the poetic.
And I'm glad you two enjoyed it! I was concerned I might be pasting reams of text that only I thought was fun.
I wouldn't dare read it for myself, not knowing how much of it to take seriously! (...although I guess at this point maybe I could?
You wouldn't get all of it, but you'd definitely get some of it! :D
Many of the passages I shared were specifically *because* they were wrong, and wrong in interesting ways.
Oh, Macaulay on Fritz's Seven Years' War disasters: *omitting any mention of Fritz's responsibility for said disasters, praising his ability to repair losses quickly* My hero!
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Re: Macaulay - Life of Frederick the Great
Date: 2020-09-04 03:48 pm (UTC)The Fritz the terrier section especially has some prose verging on the poetic.
And I'm glad you two enjoyed it! I was concerned I might be pasting reams of text that only I thought was fun.
I wouldn't dare read it for myself, not knowing how much of it to take seriously! (...although I guess at this point maybe I could?
You wouldn't get all of it, but you'd definitely get some of it! :D
Many of the passages I shared were specifically *because* they were wrong, and wrong in interesting ways.
Oh, Macaulay on Fritz's Seven Years' War disasters: *omitting any mention of Fritz's responsibility for said disasters, praising his ability to repair losses quickly* My hero!