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That was the one place where their stories diverged, and also the one where Fritz couldn't come up with a clever answer.

Ahhhh okay! And ha, yeah, I can see you guys talked about it but I can also see that I just didn't know enough to be able to absorb everything properly :)

The entire fic as well as the dialogue is carefully constructed to make it open to both interpretations.

...But yeah, it is heavily skewed to direct you toward my personal preference, which is why you remember it that way. :P

Ha! Yes, all right, I see that now. But yes, given that those bits are wholly in Fritz's POV... :P

So yeah, sorry for imprinting you before salon had read All The Things. :P

:)

I find masquerading (in any form, for any reason) far more interesting than sincere piety.

Not gonna lie, I read this sentence and my brain was like VOLTAIRE! :D But anyway, I find both interesting but in different ways, and they appeal to different parts of my psyche. Masquerading is certainly more intellectually interesting and stimulating to me, deist "defender of the Protestant faith" having texts read in the church about not suffering a woman to lead makes me laugh, lol, and sincere piety can easily be boring (I must reluctantly concede that I actually don't want fic about EC), but sometimes piety can be interesting.

Though in MT's case I think a large part of why I glommed onto her was not particularly her piety but because it was such a relief to find someone in this fandom who was from a vaguely-functional family (although I suppose she had her own problems, and she managed to mess up her kids a fair amount, at least they weren't... Hohenzollern problems).

So it wasn't all FW's example? At any rate, it's bittersweet to me that he was able to keep working up till the very end.

Yeah, I know we talked about this before a bit... But it just breaks my heart that FW was like "what a lazy kid I have" and, like, NO!