18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 35

[cahn]

In the previous post Charles II found AITA:

Look, I, m, believe in live and let live. (And in not going on my travels again. Had enough of that to last a life time.) Why can't everyone else around me be more chill? Instead, my wife refuses to employ my girlfriend, my girlfriend won't budge and accept another office, my brother is set on a course to piss off everyone (he WILL go on his travels again), and my oldest kid shows signs of wanting my job which is just not on, sorry to say. And don't get me started about Mom (thank God she's living abroad). What am I doing wrong? AITA?

Comments

Re: The guy who was too tall for FW

[mildred_of_midgard]

Wow! I didn't think there was such a thing. Source?

Re: The guy who was too tall for FW

[luzula]

Sorry, it doesn't give a source! The book is Linneaus’ travel notes, edited by Magnus von Platen and Carl-Otto von Sydow in 1975. There are tons of notes, mostly in order to explain which plants etc he's talking about and translating his Latin and various old fashioned Swedish words. But no source for this biographical footnote. Linneaus only mentions Cajanus because he's passing through his birthplace and asks people if he was tall as a child.

Re: The guy who was too tall for FW

[mildred_of_midgard]

Ah, makes sense, especially given what Selena found! (I was on my phone when I got this but couldn't NOT react, hence the very brusque reply. :))

Headcanon that the part about him being too tall for FW is false, because there is no such thing as too tall for FW.

But a delightful find no matter what, and who knows! Maybe it's true! (It's just not my headcanon. :P)