Yep. I'm reading Krockow and I literally just got to this line when the notification of your comment came in:
In almost half a century he didn't miss a single day of carrying out his official duties; the human right to vacation and recreation, which statesmen all over the world take for granted today, would have been incomprehensible to him.
The sentence immediately before this goes:
Like his father, he took care of everything and everything, down to the really trivial: the marriage license or rather the non-license for a Rittmeister [captain], the appointment or transfer of a pastor, the grant of money for the repair of a street or its refusal.
So that's why he has to be dead to be "sans souci."
Ohh, chocolate with ginger is quite nice, though!
I hesitated because I was thinking that, but then I decided the Worcestershire sauce would ruin the effect. Mind you, I'm not inclined to try. ;)
Re: Fritz/Voltaire
Yep. I'm reading Krockow and I literally just got to this line when the notification of your comment came in:
In almost half a century he didn't miss a single day of carrying out his official duties; the human right to vacation and recreation, which statesmen all over the world take for granted today, would have been incomprehensible to him.
The sentence immediately before this goes:
Like his father, he took care of everything and everything, down to the really trivial: the marriage license or rather the non-license for a Rittmeister [captain], the appointment or transfer of a pastor, the grant of money for the repair of a street or its refusal.
So that's why he has to be dead to be "sans souci."
Ohh, chocolate with ginger is quite nice, though!
I hesitated because I was thinking that, but then I decided the Worcestershire sauce would ruin the effect. Mind you, I'm not inclined to try. ;)
Open to alternate suggestions, though!
Fritzian recipes: a new type of crackfic.