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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: Suhm letters

[personal profile] selenak 2021-03-01 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
Sawing wood! This I confess I had not expected.

As hobbies go, this is certainly an excentric one, to be sure. Well, at least presumably the sawed wood is used for heating?


"Stop trying to talk me out of being a workaholic!" Fritz concludes.

FW: My son hates everything which includes effort and work.

Us: *facepalm*


No kidding.

Another editor's footnote tells me that FW started a commission to look into Wolff as early as 1736, and that he was proclaimed innocent. Do we know if this is true?

As Stabi offers the ordering of up to six volumes of books via mail, I will soon find out, I presume.
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Re: Suhm letters

[personal profile] mildred_of_midgard 2021-03-01 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
As hobbies go, this is certainly an excentric one, to be sure. Well, at least presumably the sawed wood is used for heating?

That was my first guess, yes.

As Stabi offers the ordering of up to six volumes of books via mail, I will soon find out, I presume.

!!!! <3333

Yay!

As much as I always get a rush from acquiring a book, it's gotten to the point where it's almost more exciting when you get one, because you have the concentration and the German ability to do something with it! Thank you!