Lövenörn is an intriguing man of mystery! Maybe Katte was trying to sound out the Danes as a possible alternate escape destination but had to learn they‘d most likely hand Fritz back to his Dad. (Whereas they could be reasonably sure G2 wouldn‘t, due to FW dislike trumping dislike of uppity sons named Fritz?)
Danube: you can say that again. My first thought, btw, wasn‘t „Vienna“ but „Regensburg“, presumably due to having recently been there. But also because of the Perpetual Diet. (Maybe Katte went with someone on semi-official business?). Other German Danube towns are Passau and Ingolstadt (the later has a university where Victor Frankenstein studies in Mary Shelley‘s novel), and Kelheim (didn‘t FW stop there at the trip of doom?).
But what this does is add to my increasing awareness that Fritz and Katte did not have very long to get to know each other.
That is very true, and perhaps a reason why my mind insists on refusing to come up with scenarios where they are a happy long term couple. It‘s too much like a Romeo and Juliet thing - brief, intense as hell, but by its very nature tragic and short. Though I like your idea that Katte was a milder Keyslerlingk and maybe a living Katte would have been treated by Fritz the same way (much favored, but kept far from politics). BTW, what would then have become of Keyserlingk Actual? Not to mention all the other boyfriends, with or without (depending on the AU) Fredersdorf included….
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Re: Kattes
Date: 2021-11-17 08:41 am (UTC)Danube: you can say that again. My first thought, btw, wasn‘t „Vienna“ but „Regensburg“, presumably due to having recently been there. But also because of the Perpetual Diet. (Maybe Katte went with someone on semi-official business?). Other German Danube towns are Passau and Ingolstadt (the later has a university where Victor Frankenstein studies in Mary Shelley‘s novel), and Kelheim (didn‘t FW stop there at the trip of doom?).
But what this does is add to my increasing awareness that Fritz and Katte did not have very long to get to know each other.
That is very true, and perhaps a reason why my mind insists on refusing to come up with scenarios where they are a happy long term couple. It‘s too much like a Romeo and Juliet thing - brief, intense as hell, but by its very nature tragic and short. Though I like your idea that Katte was a milder Keyslerlingk and maybe a living Katte would have been treated by Fritz the same way (much favored, but kept far from politics). BTW, what would then have become of Keyserlingk Actual? Not to mention all the other boyfriends, with or without (depending on the AU) Fredersdorf included….