Point taken, though Gutzkow picking him rather than G or S as the mastermind, and presenting them as his evil yet foolish to incompetent stooges is still his choice!
Oh, definitely! It's a very odd choice even assuming you want to redeem FW. Hence "kind of" and "squint." ;)
it's really the evil minion/mistress/advisor/favourite who is hateable and responsible for the bad policies under which I'm suffering, not the monarch themselves
Horowski on multiple occasions stresses that the political influence of the maitresse en titre was always overstated, because when someone in power had one position to bestow and 20 nobles who wanted it, it made a nice appeasement tactic for the families of the 19. "Well, *I* would have given it to your son/brother/nephew, but you know, when the mistress speaks, what're you gonna do?"
Lord Hervey is the outlier in the "blame the minion!" game
Voltaire: Let me remind you that, mockery of Freytag's accent notwithstanding, I had no trouble placing the blame squarely where it belonged: on the monarch I still miss and write to regularly. Mixed feelings FTW!
LOL on Showalter. Does he explain why Fritz dissolves the regiment if the Giants were so useful?
He might; I read the book about 6 months ago. But since the soldiers were retained, just distributed across other regiments, that addresses the point about the value of having tall soldiers in your army. As for experimenting...I think Fritz had other ways of doing his experimenting, like in battle. "Well, that could have gone better, let's change that up." ;)
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Re: Reply to the RomCom
Date: 2021-03-06 05:28 pm (UTC)Point taken, though Gutzkow picking him rather than G or S as the mastermind, and presenting them as his evil yet foolish to incompetent stooges is still his choice!
Oh, definitely! It's a very odd choice even assuming you want to redeem FW. Hence "kind of" and "squint." ;)
it's really the evil minion/mistress/advisor/favourite who is hateable and responsible for the bad policies under which I'm suffering, not the monarch themselves
Horowski on multiple occasions stresses that the political influence of the maitresse en titre was always overstated, because when someone in power had one position to bestow and 20 nobles who wanted it, it made a nice appeasement tactic for the families of the 19. "Well, *I* would have given it to your son/brother/nephew, but you know, when the mistress speaks, what're you gonna do?"
Lord Hervey is the outlier in the "blame the minion!" game
Voltaire: Let me remind you that, mockery of Freytag's accent notwithstanding, I had no trouble placing the blame squarely where it belonged: on the monarch I still miss and write to regularly. Mixed feelings FTW!
LOL on Showalter. Does he explain why Fritz dissolves the regiment if the Giants were so useful?
He might; I read the book about 6 months ago. But since the soldiers were retained, just distributed across other regiments, that addresses the point about the value of having tall soldiers in your army. As for experimenting...I think Fritz had other ways of doing his experimenting, like in battle. "Well, that could have gone better, let's change that up." ;)