I'm starting to wonder if it's one of those things everyone "knows" about Fritz that ends up being apocryphal
It's certainly something that would make sense as an exaggerated story that has a lot of truth in it - in this case his general attitude towards work/study and his coffee drinking (and his general personality) - but might not have happened exactly the way it's told through the grapevine. On the other hand, it's Fritz, so who knows. Might as well be true to the letter.
re: Doctor Superville [what a name] - didn't Valory say some similar things that early? I seem to remember coming across that. (And Voltaire kind of jokes about the mutual dislike between him and Fritz in one of the letters I read yesterday.)
if you have the word "polutropos" in your vocabulary like the ancient Greeks did, you don't need the word "enigma"
Had to google that (never got past two weeks of Greek), but now I really like it! Also from a meta standpoint, multiple narratives possible.
Heh, I left out the health/fruit part because I assumed that everyone here knew it anyway, given that I learned most of it from rheinsberg in the first place. And thank you for the link to the intro post - I see that your "Fritz as Royal Detective" from a few days ago had a double layer there, ha.
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Re: Early Fritz letter to Voltaire / Random Thoughts
Date: 2020-10-10 02:08 pm (UTC)It's certainly something that would make sense as an exaggerated story that has a lot of truth in it - in this case his general attitude towards work/study and his coffee drinking (and his general personality) - but might not have happened exactly the way it's told through the grapevine. On the other hand, it's Fritz, so who knows. Might as well be true to the letter.
re: Doctor Superville [what a name] - didn't Valory say some similar things that early? I seem to remember coming across that. (And Voltaire kind of jokes about the mutual dislike between him and Fritz in one of the letters I read yesterday.)
if you have the word "polutropos" in your vocabulary like the ancient Greeks did, you don't need the word "enigma"
Had to google that (never got past two weeks of Greek), but now I really like it! Also from a meta standpoint, multiple narratives possible.
Heh, I left out the health/fruit part because I assumed that everyone here knew it anyway, given that I learned most of it from