Reading along with your notes is GREAT :D Thank you for the detailed notes!
The prose is way easier than any of the other nonfiction we've read, not least because you're on to something with the short paragraphs being much easier :P Though I contend it's not just because the paragraphs are shorter (though that is definitely part of it) but because the short journal entries are things like "Visited with Frau So-and-so." If reading this doesn't drum into my head the German for "visit" and "with," I think I'm beyond hope.
Lehndorff describes a marriage by saying the husband is stone blind, which is an advantage for the wife, since she's really ugly. Lol.
ahahaha I got a kick out of that too.
Lehndorff points out that this one woman squints horribly.
It also sounded like everyone was kind of annoyed that she was replacing someone they really liked? So maybe everyone was a bit inclined to be a bit BEC about her to begin with.
in keeping with "rubbish soaps" and "Cape stallion", Google has decided to translate Heinrich's boyfriend Reisewitz as "travel jokes."
LOL! Thank you for clearing that up :)
If it's not obvious, this is Fritz's "anonymous" pamphlet
Ah, thank you, because at first when I saw "illustrious writer" I immediately thought Voltaire, and then I was puzzled because wasn't Voltaire on the other side??
Voltaire: It was a natural mistake to make, given the writing ability of all the other parties involved.
Lehndorff saying that if Heinrich had been born a shepherd, he would have been the delight of his little village--I can hear [personal profile] cahn saying, "Endearing!" :)
:) I am afraid that the permanent consequence of having asked for endearing stories about FW is that I am always looking for whether any given character is endearing or not :) (On a scale from 1 to 10, Lehndorff is a 10, and FW is 1, and everyone else scales in between.)
What does Se. mean before the honorific? I assume Seiner?
Re: Lehndorff readalong
The prose is way easier than any of the other nonfiction we've read, not least because you're on to something with the short paragraphs being much easier :P Though I contend it's not just because the paragraphs are shorter (though that is definitely part of it) but because the short journal entries are things like "Visited with Frau So-and-so." If reading this doesn't drum into my head the German for "visit" and "with," I think I'm beyond hope.
Lehndorff describes a marriage by saying the husband is stone blind, which is an advantage for the wife, since she's really ugly. Lol.
ahahaha I got a kick out of that too.
Lehndorff points out that this one woman squints horribly.
It also sounded like everyone was kind of annoyed that she was replacing someone they really liked? So maybe everyone was a bit inclined to be a bit BEC about her to begin with.
in keeping with "rubbish soaps" and "Cape stallion", Google has decided to translate Heinrich's boyfriend Reisewitz as "travel jokes."
LOL! Thank you for clearing that up :)
If it's not obvious, this is Fritz's "anonymous" pamphlet
Ah, thank you, because at first when I saw "illustrious writer" I immediately thought Voltaire, and then I was puzzled because wasn't Voltaire on the other side??
Voltaire: It was a natural mistake to make, given the writing ability of all the other parties involved.
Lehndorff saying that if Heinrich had been born a shepherd, he would have been the delight of his little village--I can hear [personal profile] cahn saying, "Endearing!" :)
:) I am afraid that the permanent consequence of having asked for endearing stories about FW is that I am always looking for whether any given character is endearing or not :) (On a scale from 1 to 10, Lehndorff is a 10, and FW is 1, and everyone else scales in between.)
What does Se. mean before the honorific? I assume Seiner?