;an early taste for "sensual indulgence" which Seydlitz never lost and which eventually killed him
Well! Like you say... that's an impressively vague-but-technically-correct synonym for "died of syphilis"!
Varnhagen: Reads novel and realizes it ahistorically has Rahel in love with Louis Ferdinand Varnhagen: OMG!
LOLOLOLOL I can totally see Varnhagen objecting from the historian side! Though it's got to be especially weird when it's actually your own wife. I think if someone wrote RPF about my spouse and that RPF was actually incorrect, I'd be pretty freaked out.
Conclusion: on one hand, it's just a novel. On the other hand, also kind of weird! I understand both their POVs here :)
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Re: Return of the manly chaste Prussians
Date: 2023-06-04 06:41 pm (UTC)Well! Like you say... that's an impressively vague-but-technically-correct synonym for "died of syphilis"!
Varnhagen: Reads novel and realizes it ahistorically has Rahel in love with Louis Ferdinand
Varnhagen: OMG!
LOLOLOLOL I can totally see Varnhagen objecting from the historian side! Though it's got to be especially weird when it's actually your own wife. I think if someone wrote RPF about my spouse and that RPF was actually incorrect, I'd be pretty freaked out.
Conclusion: on one hand, it's just a novel. On the other hand, also kind of weird! I understand both their POVs here :)