I knew you were going to come here with some document that would make me go OH RIGHT.
OH RIGHT, the Finnish sex machine and the royal threesome! We should try to get our hands on that someday.
G2 telling Caroline all about his new mistress because she's his bff has to count!
Apparently future Peter III did this with his bff, Catherine, although because they lived together, I doubt it was ever put into writing.
Wagner fan that he was, tried to write his personal letters the way people in Wagner's opera's speak, which makes most of said letters, well, extraordinary, but never more so than when he's corresponding with Wagner himself (who really did not speak or talk like that otherwise and found it incredibly exhausting
Lol, that's hilarious! I'm reminded of a physics professor I had, who said that when he first went to Germany, most of his exposure to German had come from Wagner, and that meant he did things like compliment a police officer on his "noble steed."
Police officer: ...You learned German from Wagner, didn't you? Prof: Does it show?
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Re: Extraordinary documents by monarchs, you say?
Date: 2021-08-18 12:28 pm (UTC)OH RIGHT, the Finnish sex machine and the royal threesome! We should try to get our hands on that someday.
G2 telling Caroline all about his new mistress because she's his bff has to count!
Apparently future Peter III did this with his bff, Catherine, although because they lived together, I doubt it was ever put into writing.
Wagner fan that he was, tried to write his personal letters the way people in Wagner's opera's speak, which makes most of said letters, well, extraordinary, but never more so than when he's corresponding with Wagner himself (who really did not speak or talk like that otherwise and found it incredibly exhausting
Lol, that's hilarious! I'm reminded of a physics professor I had, who said that when he first went to Germany, most of his exposure to German had come from Wagner, and that meant he did things like compliment a police officer on his "noble steed."
Police officer: ...You learned German from Wagner, didn't you?
Prof: Does it show?