Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 20

[cahn]

Yuletide signups so far:
3 requests for Frederician RPF, 2 offers
2 requests for Circle of Voltaire RPF, 3 offers !! :D :D

(I am so curious as to who the third person is!)

Comments

Re: Fritz/Voltaire

[mildred_of_midgard]

Il n'est pas nécessaire que je vive, mais bien que j'agisse. That seemed like a very Fritz way of looking at things to me.

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.