Still going! Still clearing Fritz's valet/chamberlain Fredersdorf's name from the calumny enshrined in wikipedia that he was dismissed for financial irregularities!
I love introducing people who have similar interests and have done it a couple of other times, but I think this is the only time it's actually worked out! It's certainly the only time it's worked out SO WELL :D
Right? But, you know, he didn't retire because he wanted to stop working. He retired because his body was falling apart; in his mind, he was presumably the same person with the same desire to do what had mattered to him all those years.
Aw, Fredersdorf <3
Because sometimes people keep working for more negative reasons, like "proving things to long-dead Dad", but Fredersdorf strikes me as someone who might have liked getting a request now and again and having something specific to do for an hour. I hope so!
First part of this: :( Second part of this: HEADCANON ACCEPTED.
Re: Leining to Fredersdorf: Letter 8, page 1 - Translation
THANK YOU FOR INTRODUCING US. I have tried to get people to do a salon with me since, idk, I was a kid, and no one ever would! Even in college and grad school, no one bought "Let us research the same topic and report what we find and build off each other's findings, it will be the MOST FUN."
<333 you and selenak and your blog, the earthly paradise!
Re: Leining to Fredersdorf: Letter 8, page 1 - Translation
I agree! It is only the travesty of a pandemic that has kept me out of Germany this long through the glory that is our salon.
But the pandemic seems to be slowly dying down, and my boss is still trying to get me to take a solid month off work, so...maybe next year! Part of my handwriting push, which I intend to follow up with a French-and-German reading proficiency push, is in hopes of hitting some archives on my next visit. (Not just in Aurich.) I need to be able to read more than 2 or 3 pages a day!
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Re: Leining to Fredersdorf: Letter 8, page 1 - Translation
:DD
I love introducing people who have similar interests and have done it a couple of other times, but I think this is the only time it's actually worked out! It's certainly the only time it's worked out SO WELL :D
Right? But, you know, he didn't retire because he wanted to stop working. He retired because his body was falling apart; in his mind, he was presumably the same person with the same desire to do what had mattered to him all those years.
Aw, Fredersdorf <3
Because sometimes people keep working for more negative reasons, like "proving things to long-dead Dad", but Fredersdorf strikes me as someone who might have liked getting a request now and again and having something specific to do for an hour. I hope so!
First part of this: :(
Second part of this: HEADCANON ACCEPTED.
Re: Leining to Fredersdorf: Letter 8, page 1 - Translation
<333 you and
Re: Leining to Fredersdorf: Letter 8, page 1 - Translation
You two really must make it to Europe (well, Germany) so I can play hostess to you and show happy happy I am to have found the both of you!
Re: Leining to Fredersdorf: Letter 8, page 1 - Translation
But the pandemic seems to be slowly dying down, and my boss is still trying to get me to take a solid month off work, so...maybe next year! Part of my handwriting push, which I intend to follow up with a French-and-German reading proficiency push, is in hopes of hitting some archives on my next visit. (Not just in Aurich.) I need to be able to read more than 2 or 3 pages a day!