We could have had little frogs in our fics, just think. Next time!
with which the King hit the Prince Wilhelm's fingers with in jest, whereupon the Prince was shocked and by jumping back had a bad fall, which is why he's now confined to a sickbed.
- AW forced to intervene on behalf of a long fellow under threat of being whipped by rod. - FW jokingly threatens to cut off AW's fingers. - AW finds out FW cuts off his officers' heads and doesn't want to be an officer any more. - FW jokingly hits AW with a rod, resulting in a fall that lands him in a sickbed.
Even the favorite kid had it rough, man.
But no matter; Stratemann certainly delivered before that.
He did indeed! Both for information we didn't already have, and for what was going through the rumor mill at the time, which is always of interest to me: contemporaries didn't have the opportunities to do all the comparative review of sources with the benefit of hindsight that we have, so for fanfic purposes, it's often useful to have characters be *wrong*. (E.g. Fritz wearing Katte's coat, or when cahn originally had Katte executed "practically" in front of Fritz's eyes, and I pointed out that contemporaries hadn't read Hoffbauer and the majority would have said "in front of.")
For future reference, here's the seating chart.
I'm so glad the German reading group decided to cover Oster! Back when you read it, we had no way of knowing that envoy reports were such gold mines of scholarly interest and/or gossipy sensationalism.
Oh, did you ever give us the story of how Ferdinand's nurse was chosen? There's been a lot of material, and maybe I missed it, but I've been waiting. :)
Re: The Braunschweig Perspective: Wedding Bells are Breaking Up That Old Gang of Mine
with which the King hit the Prince Wilhelm's fingers with in jest, whereupon the Prince was shocked and by jumping back had a bad fall, which is why he's now confined to a sickbed.
- AW forced to intervene on behalf of a long fellow under threat of being whipped by rod.
- FW jokingly threatens to cut off AW's fingers.
- AW finds out FW cuts off his officers' heads and doesn't want to be an officer any more.
- FW jokingly hits AW with a rod, resulting in a fall that lands him in a sickbed.
Even the favorite kid had it rough, man.
But no matter; Stratemann certainly delivered before that.
He did indeed! Both for information we didn't already have, and for what was going through the rumor mill at the time, which is always of interest to me: contemporaries didn't have the opportunities to do all the comparative review of sources with the benefit of hindsight that we have, so for fanfic purposes, it's often useful to have characters be *wrong*. (E.g. Fritz wearing Katte's coat, or when
For future reference, here's the seating chart.
I'm so glad the German reading group decided to cover Oster! Back when you read it, we had no way of knowing that envoy reports were such gold mines of scholarly interest and/or gossipy sensationalism.
Oh, did you ever give us the story of how Ferdinand's nurse was chosen? There's been a lot of material, and maybe I missed it, but I've been waiting. :)