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cahn ([personal profile] cahn) wrote2021-02-20 09:19 pm
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Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 24

Every post I can't believe this is still going on, and yet, here we are :D
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Re: Nicolai Volume 2: It's Antinous Time! (Also: FW, Music lover)

[personal profile] mildred_of_midgard 2021-02-27 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks for embedding the pics; I tried, but it wouldn't let me, because I am not you.

Fredersdorf so lucked out, clearly. If FW had known he could play the oboe (!!!!), he'd have been drafted to serve in FW's personal orchestra.

Omg, you're right! I hadn't made the connection.

Fritz: Whey do you think I said we're leaving ALL the instruments at home in Ruppin?

Okay, [personal profile] cahn, we need this in the sequel, FW falling asleep (or pretending to fall asleep to music), and FW's painting hobby!

it's still not the same as accusing someone of cowardice for whom behavior in one particular battle makes or breaks a reputation.

No, but even in more modern, totally posthumous treatments, Fritz takes heat for his behavior here. It's not really either-or.

Speaking of which, though, I meant to report some time ago that MacDonogh, citing Duffy, says:

The horse that bore him to safety, the 'Mollwitz Grey', was granted honorary retirement in Potsdam. For the rest of its life it would occasionally take part, unbidden, in the trooping of the colours.
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Re: Nicolai Volume 2: It's Antinous Time! (Also: FW, Music lover)

[personal profile] mildred_of_midgard 2021-02-28 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
ZOMG

But yes, outtake! Your fans demand an outtake! But not yet because I have no time to beta. :P
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Re: Nicolai Volume 2: It's Antinous Time! (Also: FW, Music lover)

[personal profile] selenak 2021-02-28 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
Seconding this. Give us FW deciding he wants Fredersdorf... in his Händel orchestra!