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cahnUnfortunately, there was then at Berlin a King who pursued one policy only, who deceived his enemies, but not his servants, and who lied without scruple, but never without necessity.
(from The King's Secret - by Duke de Broglie, grand-nephew of the subject of the book, Comte de Broglie, and grandfather of the physicist) )
(from The King's Secret - by Duke de Broglie, grand-nephew of the subject of the book, Comte de Broglie, and grandfather of the physicist) )
Re: Exchanges
Date: 2023-09-10 11:38 pm (UTC)MT: *waxes bloody minded*
FS: The royal bro code forbids--
MT: I am not a bro!
:D
I am really torn on Yuletide. I would like to write something, but my usual problem around timing will recur this year: December is the one month that's so light at work that I can effectively take it off without using my time off or inconveniencing anyone, and I want to use it for back pain experiments that mess up my sleep. And as we've seen, messed up sleep leaves
But maybe I'll be able to treat!
Re: Exchanges
Date: 2023-09-11 06:09 pm (UTC)MT: I am not a bro!
I laughed :D
Messed up sleep plus WRITING 30k WORDS means I am bailing you out! :)
(Though yeah, idk whether I'll have time this year. Though I say this every year, and at least I don't have to organize Christmas music this year, yaaaaaay!)
Ha, yeah, let me go look that up again...
Re: Exchanges
Date: 2023-09-11 07:37 pm (UTC)MT: I am not a bro!
I laughed :D
I borrowed that from Selena! https://cahn.dreamwidth.org/196287.html?thread=3982527#cmt3982527
Messed up sleep plus WRITING 30k WORDS means I am bailing you out! :)
You also bailed me out when I tried to treat Selena with Fredersdorf the first Yuletide of salon, and we ended up co-authoring Counterpoint (with most of the words written by you)!
Though I say this every year, and at least I don't have to organize Christmas music this year, yaaaaaay!)
So what I'm hearing is yes. :PPP
Re: Exchanges
Date: 2023-09-12 04:40 pm (UTC)Oh, and I keep wanting to mention this: Kaphengst's old palace, Meseberg, doesn't just serve as the house for state guests but also for government brainstorming hermit sessions. When the most recent of our volatile coalition government happened, one article said that surely, they must be sick by now of staring up to the ceiling and watching Prince Heinrich being welcomed to the Olymp of War Heroes ("Prinz Heinrich wird in den Olymp der Kriegshelden aufgenommen" being apparantly the title of the painting Kaphengst ordered for his main reception salon.
Lehndorff: He stole the idea from me! Only I did it much better and with more emotion instead of flattery when I had the Olympian Gods send a message to Heinrich to join them for his 30th birthday in my apartment and painted my wallpaper with phosphor messages in his honor! Bloody Cape Stallion!
Re: Exchanges
Date: 2023-09-15 03:44 am (UTC)LOLOLOLOL Lehndorff you are right and you should say it :D
Haha yes to having a central location to which people who don't know about Goldstone can be pointed! :)
Re: Exchanges
Date: 2023-09-21 05:43 am (UTC)I have added "how we collectively made mince meat of 'In the Shadow of the Empress' by Nancy Goldstone" as a Trello card to my to-do list for Rheinsberg, which means it might actually get done someday. That list keeps getting longer as Darth Real Life goes on, though. :( (Darth Real Life might finally be under control as of today, though we'll see.) But hey, I can take FS off it now! Go Selena.
Lehndorff: He stole the idea from me! Only I did it much better and with more emotion instead of flattery when I had the Olympian Gods send a message to Heinrich to join them for his 30th birthday in my apartment and painted my wallpaper with phosphor messages in his honor! Bloody Cape Stallion!
Hahahahaaa! I laughed. :D
Re: Exchanges
Date: 2023-09-13 05:07 am (UTC)