My dear, I exposed you to more than one Fritzian diss of Canadian savages; it's okay. It's just that previous travelogues had spoiled me, and the preface does unduly hype.
One bit perhaps of (sad) interest: Montesquieu when writing about MT's mother says tactfully she "still bears traces of the greatest beauty of any princess in Europe" in 1728, when he meets her. Lady Mary when meeting her in 1717 (when she was pregnant with MT) did describe her as the most beautiful princess she's seen in Europe. (Which, btw, means she considers young Elisabeth Christine the first more beautiful than Caroline, whom she does know.) This is what all the quack cures and "diets" and of course the pregnancies and stillbirths did in a decade.
Re: Montesquieu I: How not to travel through Germany in the first half of the 18th Century
My dear, I exposed you to more than one Fritzian diss of Canadian savages;
Lol, that's completely different! (Plus I had run into more than one before I met you, I think I was the one who pointed out Fritz's opinions there. You were just the one who made it memorably hilarious with your Rheinsberg ghost ficlet. :P)
Anyway, I'm sorry it was a letdown. I guess we've been spoiled by random books turning out to be amazing or have amazing discoveries over and over again.
This is what all the quack cures and "diets" and of course the pregnancies and stillbirths did in a decade.
That is sad. I hope the food and alcohol and porn were enjoyable while they lasted, because that was a high price to pay for them. :(
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Re: Montesquieu I: How not to travel through Germany in the first half of the 18th Century
My dear, I exposed you to more than one Fritzian diss of Canadian savages; it's okay. It's just that previous travelogues had spoiled me, and the preface does unduly hype.
One bit perhaps of (sad) interest: Montesquieu when writing about MT's mother says tactfully she "still bears traces of the greatest beauty of any princess in Europe" in 1728, when he meets her. Lady Mary when meeting her in 1717 (when she was pregnant with MT) did describe her as the most beautiful princess she's seen in Europe. (Which, btw, means she considers young Elisabeth Christine the first more beautiful than Caroline, whom she does know.) This is what all the quack cures and "diets" and of course the pregnancies and stillbirths did in a decade.
Re: Montesquieu I: How not to travel through Germany in the first half of the 18th Century
Lol, that's completely different! (Plus I had run into more than one before I met you, I think I was the one who pointed out Fritz's opinions there. You were just the one who made it memorably hilarious with your Rheinsberg ghost ficlet. :P)
Anyway, I'm sorry it was a letdown. I guess we've been spoiled by random books turning out to be amazing or have amazing discoveries over and over again.
This is what all the quack cures and "diets" and of course the pregnancies and stillbirths did in a decade.
That is sad. I hope the food and alcohol and porn were enjoyable while they lasted, because that was a high price to pay for them. :(