cahn

FW 2 and the spiritualist sects: this really was a big thing

I think Horowski spends some time on it too. If I end up rereading that chapter, I'll try to do a write-up for you, cahn. I remember there being some memorable Horowski quotes (the man has a way with words).

Lastly, here's a question for salon: what do we think Fritz' motives for denying Lehndorff's spring of 1756 request to emigrate with Charles Hotham Jr. were:

a) If I didn't get to London with my lover, NO ONE gets to go to London with their lover.
b) I don't want Fredersdorf to have to go hunting for another chamberlain for my wife, especially now that he's sick and I have a war upcoming
c) He's known Hotham for how many months? A guy who first shows bad judgment by swooning over my brother Heinrich and then wants to spend the rest of his life for a man he hardly knows clearly can't be trusted to make his own decisions, so I'm making them for him.

I think (a) may have been operating at a subconscious level, (b) was likely a practical consideration, but I think the way (a) manifested at the conscious level was to be rationalized as "If *I* can stay and do my duty to the state, Lehndorff can damn well stay and do his duty!"

That's my headcanon.

I was going to say last post, I'm glad at least Fredersdorf got to go to Paris. For his sake, of course, and also because it was probably the next best thing to getting to go himself for Fritz.

And cahn, I agree, the story of signing the last three letters is heartbreaking to me too. :(