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cahnMore diaries of our favorite 18th-century Prussian diary-keeper have been unearthed and have been synopsized!
January 18th: Blessed be thou to me! Under your light, my Prince Heinrich was born!
January 18th: Blessed be thou to me! Under your light, my Prince Heinrich was born!
Re: Lehndorff replies
Date: 2022-07-17 12:03 pm (UTC)So true. I maintain that no matter where they ended up, though, Voltaire and Fritz would find a way to correspond. I choose to believe.
Also, do the German greats really *want* to hang out with Fritz in the afterlife? That sounds like a case of "Be careful what you wish for, you may get it" to me. ;)
Which I found very pretty indeed, but yes, I prefer the English style, too.
Yes, exactly! My reaction to the Hofgarten and later such gardens was: "It's extremely pretty, but it doesn't speak to me."
Re: Lehndorff replies
Date: 2022-07-25 04:01 am (UTC)German greats, two hours of hanging out with Fritz later: "Actually... you know what, if he really wants to be with Voltaire that much, that's okay, we can find someone else to hang out with."
Fritz: *has been texting with Voltaire the whole time*
Fritz's in heaven, this we know
Date: 2022-07-25 11:52 am (UTC)German greats: *back away slowly*
German greats: *go hang out with Carl August*
Voltaire: The worst part isn't when he reads my poetry out loud and expects you to praise it, it's when it's his own!
Mildred: That's why the most hilarious line of many from your memoirs will always be:
Leaving my palace of Alcina, I went to pass a month with the Dutchess of Saxe-Gotha, the best of Princesses, full of gentleness, discretion, and equanimity, and who, God be thanked, did not make verses.
Selena: "Alcina", Voltaire, really?
Cahn: You mean Pamela. :P