Wow, this was amaaaazing. Did you have as much fun writing it this way as I did reading it? More scholarship should be presented this way, it would be a lot more readable!
has a lengthy talk with Dad and is officially reconciled with him, though how deep that went is anyone's guess
Myeah, we've seen exactly how shallow reconciliations can be.
To return to my point: Max Emmanuel, August and F1 were all big baroque spenders. Only Bavarians and Saxons suffered while this was going on, while Prussians profited, yet my guy...
Look, Fritz had issues to work out.
Welll, on you and F1's unresolved issues with a teacher he'd admired and feared and who made him translate "Fritz will always be an ass" into Latin.
I'm finding it hard to criticize his unresolved issues...
Frank Göse: I dare say she also resented him for being in charge of FW's educational schedule for the first few years, especially once presented with the results, i.e. Tiny Terror FW.
Lol! I would have some objections too!
Frank Göse: Blaming her both for intervening in the political arena (Danckelmann) and not intervening (Wartenberg) as a way of explaining why she disliked both yet only one fell within her life time is a bit illogical.
Good one!
Frank Göse: Wartensleben wasn't like the other two Ws. My guy FW's liking for him testifies to that!
Does Göse present any actual evidence? We've seen what an A+ judge of character FW was.
Werner Schmidt: we both agree this last marriage was a tragedy. The poor girl was evidently unstable from the get go. Also a fanatic Lutheran. She told F1 he would go to hell because only Lutherans, not Calvinists, went to heaven.
Oh, wow. That's hardcore!
Werner Schmidt: Should we say something about F1's relationship with FW? You do it, because I'm oddly silent on the subject. While you're going on to become an FW specialist.
Frank Göse: Err. Well. I don't say much.
Ha!
I do think he was more emotionally invested in his mother, for all that he believed in the patriarchy.
That is very interesting and possibly true!
Werner Schmidt: I'm ending my book by saying that this lonely man who never found true love again after his first wife died, and who was ridiculed as a cripple all his life - "Humpback Fritz", the people called him - still managed to create a kingdom and solidify it at an age where Louis the supreme honcho of France just kept ruining his with his endless wars, August and Max Emmanuel, see above, and the Medici, let's not even go there. Long live Wobbie F1!
Long live the One Man Defense Squad! And long live the Royal Reader, who does a truly royal job of reading and writing!
Re: Once Upon A Time in Brandenburg: The Lonely King
has a lengthy talk with Dad and is officially reconciled with him, though how deep that went is anyone's guess
Myeah, we've seen exactly how shallow reconciliations can be.
To return to my point: Max Emmanuel, August and F1 were all big baroque spenders. Only Bavarians and Saxons suffered while this was going on, while Prussians profited, yet my guy...
Look, Fritz had issues to work out.
Welll, on you and F1's unresolved issues with a teacher he'd admired and feared and who made him translate "Fritz will always be an ass" into Latin.
I'm finding it hard to criticize his unresolved issues...
Frank Göse: I dare say she also resented him for being in charge of FW's educational schedule for the first few years, especially once presented with the results, i.e. Tiny Terror FW.
Lol! I would have some objections too!
Frank Göse: Blaming her both for intervening in the political arena (Danckelmann) and not intervening (Wartenberg) as a way of explaining why she disliked both yet only one fell within her life time is a bit illogical.
Good one!
Frank Göse: Wartensleben wasn't like the other two Ws. My guy FW's liking for him testifies to that!
Does Göse present any actual evidence? We've seen what an A+ judge of character FW was.
Werner Schmidt: we both agree this last marriage was a tragedy. The poor girl was evidently unstable from the get go. Also a fanatic Lutheran. She told F1 he would go to hell because only Lutherans, not Calvinists, went to heaven.
Oh, wow. That's hardcore!
Werner Schmidt: Should we say something about F1's relationship with FW? You do it, because I'm oddly silent on the subject. While you're going on to become an FW specialist.
Frank Göse: Err. Well. I don't say much.
Ha!
I do think he was more emotionally invested in his mother, for all that he believed in the patriarchy.
That is very interesting and possibly true!
Werner Schmidt: I'm ending my book by saying that this lonely man who never found true love again after his first wife died, and who was ridiculed as a cripple all his life - "Humpback Fritz", the people called him - still managed to create a kingdom and solidify it at an age where Louis the supreme honcho of France just kept ruining his with his endless wars, August and Max Emmanuel, see above, and the Medici, let's not even go there. Long live Wobbie F1!
Long live the One Man Defense Squad! And long live the Royal Reader, who does a truly royal job of reading and writing!