So have I, and I think what happened is the similar as with the MT quip made by someone else and then attributed to Fritz; at some point in the retelling, someone decided that no one cares what Quantz wore on that occasion, red or not, the point is what Fritz wears, so instead of just a golden brocade dressing gown, he gets a golden-brocade-and-red-silk dressing gown.
That makes sense, and also, if you, who haven't read Blanning, have also read it elsewhere, then Blanning might well have not only been going from memory of Nicolai but also remembering another source he had read.
BTW, since Quantz at this point has a well paid job in Saxony and is making these trips to Berlin solely for Fritz' sake, you can tell how emotionally invested he must have been, to put up with the prospect of angry FW.
Indeed, and you can also tell that he was completely unprepared. I have the impression that Katte is either a very quick thinker, or else he's done something like this before, and the latter seems quite likely.
Quite! It heightens the plausibility of the whole event and the reliability of Quantz as a narrator to no end.
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Re: The FW-Fritz-Quantz-Katte tale (Nicolai version)
Date: 2021-02-27 07:23 pm (UTC)That makes sense, and also, if you, who haven't read Blanning, have also read it elsewhere, then Blanning might well have not only been going from memory of Nicolai but also remembering another source he had read.
BTW, since Quantz at this point has a well paid job in Saxony and is making these trips to Berlin solely for Fritz' sake, you can tell how emotionally invested he must have been, to put up with the prospect of angry FW.
Indeed, and you can also tell that he was completely unprepared. I have the impression that Katte is either a very quick thinker, or else he's done something like this before, and the latter seems quite likely.
Quite! It heightens the plausibility of the whole event and the reliability of Quantz as a narrator to no end.
Exactly!