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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
felis: (House renfair)

Re: Nicolai Volume 2: It's Antinous Time! (Also: FW, Music lover)

[personal profile] felis 2021-02-28 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
The pictures... <333 I mean, it's not like I haven't seen them before, but they got me again. Because gorgeous and travel and Sanssouci, but also because the Antinous part of your comment and the reading of Fritz' various funeral instructions, including the way he referred to Sanssouci as "my garden" where he wanted to be buried (which made me realize that even the Flora statue on top of his grave makes a lot of sense in that nature context), just gave this impression of yearning to be at peace, somehow, somewhere.

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

!!!! indeed. Oh, man.
mildred_of_midgard: (Default)

Re: Nicolai Volume 2: It's Antinous Time! (Also: FW, Music lover)

[personal profile] mildred_of_midgard 2021-03-01 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
(which made me realize that even the Flora statue on top of his grave makes a lot of sense in that nature context)

I hadn't made that connection, so yes! You're right! Well spotted. :)

just gave this impression of yearning to be at peace, somehow, somewhere.

I knoooow. When I found out that he not only named his palace Sanssouci but then, of his grave, said he would be sans souci when he was there, my heart broke. He wanted to, but he didn't know how.

(THERAPEEEE. THERAPEEE FOR EEEEVERYOOOOONE.)