Karl of Sweden, Gottfried Leibniz, Augustus the Strong - both in terms of meter and consonants
I haven't had any brainwaves, except that "Karl of Sweden, Gottfried Leibniz, August the Strooong" is slightly easier metrically for me, but there's no help for the consonants if you don't like "Newton, Leibniz." ;)
Ice Palace, Vis Viva, Émilie du Chatelet – I mean, this isn't actually giving me a ton of difficulty but if we're fixing things maybe take another look at this?
How's "Anna's palace made of ice, Émilie and vis viva"?
Also, I was looking at the previous line, "Russian noble marries dwarf," and confirmed that I don't know what episode was being referred to. I originally assumed that it referred to the ice palace wedding, though I didn't remember a dwarf, so I used the image from that wedding, but it's been niggling in the back of my mind. I've searched salon for "dwarf" and not found where we talked about a Russian noble marrying one, and I've been all over Wikipedia for ice palace episode and found no reference to either party being a dwarf, nor in Horowski's account. selenak, what episode were you remembering that I'm forgetting?
I seem to remember the Russian historian who wrote both the Elizaveta biography and the one about all the Czarinas which you had me read some years ago describe Avdotya Buzheninova, the Kalmyk woman who was the bride on that wedding, as a dwarf. But I am not going to loan these books from the Stabi again to check. I simply don't have the time.
Understood! All my sources are simply saying she was ugly and good at grimacing and therefore used as a jester, nothing about her height. We'll leave it in the lyrics, then.
(Side note: I wish I had access to the good libraries you do and didn't have to ask you for so much help! I was hoping to be able to come to Germany this year and do some tourism and research, but alas, the US election happened and changed a bunch of my plans.)
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Re: We didn't start the fire: Anglo-picking
Date: 2025-03-08 02:26 pm (UTC)Karl of Sweden, Gottfried Leibniz, Augustus the Strong - both in terms of meter and consonants
I haven't had any brainwaves, except that "Karl of Sweden, Gottfried Leibniz, August the Strooong" is slightly easier metrically for me, but there's no help for the consonants if you don't like "Newton, Leibniz." ;)
Ice Palace, Vis Viva, Émilie du Chatelet – I mean, this isn't actually giving me a ton of difficulty but if we're fixing things maybe take another look at this?
How's "Anna's palace made of ice, Émilie and vis viva"?
Also, I was looking at the previous line, "Russian noble marries dwarf," and confirmed that I don't know what episode was being referred to. I originally assumed that it referred to the ice palace wedding, though I didn't remember a dwarf, so I used the image from that wedding, but it's been niggling in the back of my mind. I've searched salon for "dwarf" and not found where we talked about a Russian noble marrying one, and I've been all over Wikipedia for ice palace episode and found no reference to either party being a dwarf, nor in Horowski's account.
Re: We didn't start the fire: Anglo-picking
Date: 2025-03-08 03:24 pm (UTC)Re: We didn't start the fire: Anglo-picking
Date: 2025-03-08 03:31 pm (UTC)(Side note: I wish I had access to the good libraries you do and didn't have to ask you for so much help! I was hoping to be able to come to Germany this year and do some tourism and research, but alas, the US election happened and changed a bunch of my plans.)