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cahn ([personal profile] cahn) wrote 2023-06-23 05:23 am (UTC)

Re: 18th Century Letters from non celebrities on Salon relevant matters

Except then she got pregnant and died by childbirth along with the child after only a year of marriage.

Oh noooooo! WHY must history not conform to my expectations of tidy happy endings :PP

and he quotes from Lessing's heartbroken letter to Luise, and they both agree that this is the worst fate.

THIS IS TERRIBLE

Alas this happens when Boje first visits Copenhagen and comes across mad King Christian in the royal park which we're told but don't get to read he describes to Luise in detail.

This is extremely annoying in a completely different way!

and as much as I was infuriated by a lot in them, I couldn't stop reading. It's undoubtedly written by him, at least I don't know anyone who could imitate his style so perfectly.

LOL, the first sentence is evidence of the second!

May God save every man from having such a friend and companion.

I mean, most of us think that! Except... I guess.. for Voltaire and Fritz.

young Fritz was only thus because he was seduced by "französische Witzlinge" says something about Fritz' succesful image crafting and is of course a dig at Voltaire himself.

lolololol of course it is! (Me: Who are these French buffoons he talks about? Selena: Voltaire! Me: OH!)

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