Thank you for bracing the bad printing quality and extracting this feud! Very entertaining.
why FS was at Fritz' engagement party later, gloating over his defeated rival for MT's love and hand
Aw, poor FS, victim of Z's pet theory.
So, Nicolai on the gay question is basically: we all know it, but there's really no need to talk about it, so I certainly won't?
Zimmermann's legacy: causing multiple people to give signed testimonies on the state of Fritz' penis. I mean. Congrats? :P
Well, says Nicolai, it's all that bastard Voltaire's fault, because he was the one who started the story of the botched operation in his slanderous writings, which everyone had read, so these guys were curious and had a look.
Naturally. Who wouldn't have? I am amused. And of course it's Voltaire's fault in the end.
And Z, you're again not being a gentleman towards a lady by putting into print Barbarina's old scandals, because Barbarina? Still alive, and wonderful highly respected old lady who has funded a woman's shelter in silesia with her fortune, so there.
Did she? If so, good for her!
Nicolai's research into the not-actually-lady-in-waiting is really interesting, as is his comment on the quote doctoring.
By the way, via Volz' footnotes I found another Zimmermann refutation by the second chamber husar called Neumann (can be found here, written 1789), who is a lot less scientific about it and basically all about how Zimmermann was an arrogant and self-important person, who talked too much instead of doing his job, made up lies, was in it for the money, and fawned over Schöning (who was the second! chamber husar, he, Neumann, was the first!) while totally ignoring other people (read: Neumann), who might have known a few things, too. Also, that guy Schöning? Totally sucked up to FWII and that's why he got made Geheimer Kriegsrath. Neumann only serves one sun at a time, thank you very much, no rising sun for him. Oh, and that Büsching guy got ahead of himself, too. And he, Neumann, has half a mind to duel himself with all those other people who have been publishing insulting lies about the great king since his death. He also says the dog death during the Silesia revue was actually in 1784 and daily messages are a lie and while the King absolutely did get a message about the dog's death, it totally was his right as a king, so there! (He is trying to defend Fritz from a perceived "valued dogs more than people" slight in this passage. Indiscriminately defensive? Why would you ever think that?)
Re: Nicolai vs Zimmermann: En garde!
why FS was at Fritz' engagement party later, gloating over his defeated rival for MT's love and hand
Aw, poor FS, victim of Z's pet theory.
So, Nicolai on the gay question is basically: we all know it, but there's really no need to talk about it, so I certainly won't?
Zimmermann's legacy: causing multiple people to give signed testimonies on the state of Fritz' penis. I mean. Congrats? :P
Well, says Nicolai, it's all that bastard Voltaire's fault, because he was the one who started the story of the botched operation in his slanderous writings, which everyone had read, so these guys were curious and had a look.
Naturally. Who wouldn't have? I am amused. And of course it's Voltaire's fault in the end.
And Z, you're again not being a gentleman towards a lady by putting into print Barbarina's old scandals, because Barbarina? Still alive, and wonderful highly respected old lady who has funded a woman's shelter in silesia with her fortune, so there.
Did she? If so, good for her!
Nicolai's research into the not-actually-lady-in-waiting is really interesting, as is his comment on the quote doctoring.
By the way, via Volz' footnotes I found another Zimmermann refutation by the second chamber husar called Neumann (can be found here, written 1789), who is a lot less scientific about it and basically all about how Zimmermann was an arrogant and self-important person, who talked too much instead of doing his job, made up lies, was in it for the money, and fawned over Schöning (who was the second! chamber husar, he, Neumann, was the first!) while totally ignoring other people (read: Neumann), who might have known a few things, too.
Also, that guy Schöning? Totally sucked up to FWII and that's why he got made Geheimer Kriegsrath. Neumann only serves one sun at a time, thank you very much, no rising sun for him. Oh, and that Büsching guy got ahead of himself, too. And he, Neumann, has half a mind to duel himself with all those other people who have been publishing insulting lies about the great king since his death. He also says the dog death during the Silesia revue was actually in 1784 and daily messages are a lie and while the King absolutely did get a message about the dog's death, it totally was his right as a king, so there! (He is trying to defend Fritz from a perceived "valued dogs more than people" slight in this passage. Indiscriminately defensive? Why would you ever think that?)