My conclusion: yep, that's the state of mind The Great was in when writing the Marwitz letters and tells Wilhelmine the ways of how she's betrayed him, alright.
Yep, that plus in desperate need of a trip to take the waters = not easy to deal with. Remember when I speculated that Darget + Marwitz was maybe his sex drive spiking right after conquering Silesia and being called The Great?
I am really enjoying the battle of the footnotes, hee.
Also, German translator's footnote about excusing vanity reminds me of this bit from Theodor Mommsen, 19th century German historian, who would have given Caesar a blow job given the chance: "[Caesar] retained a certain foppishness in his outward appearance, or, to speak more correctly, the pleasing consciousness of his own manly beauty."
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Re: Fritz-Duhan Follow-Up
Date: 2020-11-17 05:03 pm (UTC)My conclusion: yep, that's the state of mind The Great was in when writing the Marwitz letters and tells Wilhelmine the ways of how she's betrayed him, alright.
Yep, that plus in desperate need of a trip to take the waters = not easy to deal with. Remember when I speculated that Darget + Marwitz was maybe his sex drive spiking right after conquering Silesia and being called The Great?
I am really enjoying the battle of the footnotes, hee.
Also, German translator's footnote about excusing vanity reminds me of this bit from Theodor Mommsen, 19th century German historian, who would have given Caesar a blow job given the chance: "[Caesar] retained a certain foppishness in his outward appearance, or, to speak more correctly, the pleasing consciousness of his own manly beauty."