Hiiiiii! :DD So lovely to virtual-meet you! :D As you can see from rheinsberg, I don't do the research like these powerhouses, but I am always very happy to cheer everyone on :D And Fritz-Voltaire! selenak sold me on Voltaire so I am excited to find out more about him and about their correspondence :D (mildred_of_midgard will probably drag me into reading their correspondence at some point -- I also by far am the slowest reader of these three (or at least I have the least time to read, which works out the same) -- but it will be quite a while from now.)
his doctors, more cruel than the disease itself
LOL!
although only the first - does a clock keep its pace in a vacuum? - is actually physics in hindsight, the second - does a plant seed grow without air? - is not
*nods* Did they have the same division of physics that we have now? I had the vague impression they kind of shoved everything science-related under "natural philosophy" and called it a day.
I admit that I had to look them up because I was unaware of the story.
Heh, I did read the Aeneid and I had no idea who they were! (Though it was a while ago now.)
Voltaire in his February 28th response says that Fritz should take his own health advice, and that perhaps Nisus/Euryalus fic is more suitable during a time of recovery than maths. (Which I can only agree with.)
Heeeee. Of course Fritz should :P But also I think this is hilarious because it really shows Voltaire is just so not a scientist/mathematician, despite feeling like he ought to be one because all smart people are, and Obviously He Is Smart. (This is, at least, what I came away with from the Émilie bio I read. But I suppose also can be inferred from Émilie's letter :D )
Part of what makes reading about all of this so interesting are the constant shifts: One minute I'm laughing out loud because a quote is hilarious or daring or WTF, the next I just can't help being touched or impressed, and the next it's "damn it, you asshole".
I KNOWWWWWW. I feel like when these guys tell me stories, I spend 1/3 of the time feeling sorry for him, 1/3 of the time impressed by him, and the rest of the time shaking my head and going, "Oh Fritz." (And not in a good way.)
Another take-away from my recent reading, particularly the [community profile] rheinsberg write-ups: siblings! So many sibling feelings, so many complex and heartbreaking relationships.
yessssss like everyone else is saying, all hail selenak and getting us all into the siblings! <3333333 Honestly this is when I started to get really emotionally involved -- I was having fun before, but the dysfunctional and complicated sibling dynamics really sold the whole thing to me. (Who is requesting Fritz siblings for Yuletide? This girl! Well, and also selenak :D )
The King remains at the table until 11 1/7. When he rises and the ladies in waiting and I begin to pass him, he suddenly stops at the door, holding Princess Amalie with one hand, Prince Heinrich with the other, and stands like this for nearly fifteen minutes, gazing into their faces.
..Yeah.
Lastly, I observe that fix-it scenarios don't seem quite as satisfying in a historical fandom. Pesky reality getting in the way.
Re: Early Fritz letter to Voltaire / Random Thoughts
his doctors, more cruel than the disease itself
LOL!
although only the first - does a clock keep its pace in a vacuum? - is actually physics in hindsight, the second - does a plant seed grow without air? - is not
*nods* Did they have the same division of physics that we have now? I had the vague impression they kind of shoved everything science-related under "natural philosophy" and called it a day.
I admit that I had to look them up because I was unaware of the story.
Heh, I did read the Aeneid and I had no idea who they were! (Though it was a while ago now.)
Voltaire in his February 28th response says that Fritz should take his own health advice, and that perhaps Nisus/Euryalus fic is more suitable during a time of recovery than maths. (Which I can only agree with.)
Heeeee. Of course Fritz should :P But also I think this is hilarious because it really shows Voltaire is just so not a scientist/mathematician, despite feeling like he ought to be one because all smart people are, and Obviously He Is Smart. (This is, at least, what I came away with from the Émilie bio I read. But I suppose also can be inferred from Émilie's letter :D )
Part of what makes reading about all of this so interesting are the constant shifts: One minute I'm laughing out loud because a quote is hilarious or daring or WTF, the next I just can't help being touched or impressed, and the next it's "damn it, you asshole".
I KNOWWWWWW. I feel like when these guys tell me stories, I spend 1/3 of the time feeling sorry for him, 1/3 of the time impressed by him, and the rest of the time shaking my head and going, "Oh Fritz." (And not in a good way.)
Another take-away from my recent reading, particularly the [community profile] rheinsberg write-ups: siblings! So many sibling feelings, so many complex and heartbreaking relationships.
yessssss like everyone else is saying, all hail
The King remains at the table until 11 1/7. When he rises and the ladies in waiting and I begin to pass him, he suddenly stops at the door, holding Princess Amalie with one hand, Prince Heinrich with the other, and stands like this for nearly fifteen minutes, gazing into their faces.
..Yeah.
Lastly, I observe that fix-it scenarios don't seem quite as satisfying in a historical fandom. Pesky reality getting in the way.
Absolutely agree. As mildred said, one can say to oneself in a fiction fandom that the fix-it is the thing that really happened. But... one can't really say that with reality :( (Still, though. There is some satisfaction in reading about things the way they ought to have happened
like Wilhelmine saying to FW "But it is better for you to die than for justice to leave this world.")