Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 24

[cahn]

Every post I can't believe this is still going on, and yet, here we are :D

Comments

Re: Moses Mendelsohn (aka Nicolai, Volume I, b)

[felis]

I was thinking more that he did indeed lose it, i.e. that he made a mistake/forgot, and didn't want to own up to that, not that he was strongly opposed and lied about it. But looking back at my comment, the politics line doesn't entirely fit with that interpretation, so I clearly didn't think it through. :P But yeah, I agree that if he felt strongly about not wanting to do it, he wouldn't have bothered to lie.

Re: Moses Mendelsohn (aka Nicolai, Volume I, b)

[mildred_of_midgard]

Ah, yeah, if that's what you meant, then "It got lost? I can't have lost it, someone else must have lost it!" would have been totally in character. Though it could just as easily have actually been someone else who lost it, we just don't know.