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: Fredersdorf: The Dirk Fahlenkamp Version (I) - Generalities

[cahn]

There's a reason why, until last year, the only thing I remembered about the Fritz/Voltaire fallout from 20 years ago was a biographer's description of it as inevitable because "two prima donnas can't share the same stage."

Andrew Mitchell: I put it far more elegantly when talking about Fritz and Heinrich by saying "two suns cannot share the same firmament".

LOL! IDK, Mitchell, you know I love you but I'm not sure elegant is what is the most accurate here...

George Lucas: That's what YOU think.

Hee!

Re: Fredersdorf: The Dirk Fahlenkamp Version (I) - Generalities

[mildred_of_midgard]

LOL! IDK, Mitchell, you know I love you but I'm not sure elegant is what is the most accurate here...

Haha, well, elegance aside, it's missing the point that the reason I invoked the (paraphrased from memory) quote that I did was because our ballet dancer shows why "prima donna" was a natural metaphor, whereas "suns in the same firmament", however well phrased, is irrelevant to the Baldassare quote.