Oh so much to say. Dickinson did go through a grand crisis in middle age, culminating in the “Master Letters”, an excerpt from one of which is in the background of panel four – a series of drafts abjectly begging […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Back in the day I was reading this biography of Lord John Russell, and it seemed like Every Other Page, Lord Derby was being called in to form a government that would inevitably crumble and reset the system. To be […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ideologically, the Dickinsons and Pierces couldn’t have been more different. Pierce’s father was a Revolutionary War hero and a firm Jeffersonian Democrat, and Franklin followed faithfully in his steps even as many other Democrats abandoned party principle whenever it was […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had hoped to get to Stephen Inwood’s The Forgotten Genius before doing this chatter segment, but unfortunately that was not in the cards. I am very curious to read it, as my knowledge of Hooke as a man comes […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
First of all, one of the Frederick Faithful has sketched a lovely tribute to our fallen monarch, Peter the Great. It’s entirely wonderful, so take a gander! Poor, poor Katte. Hans Hermann von Katte was Frederick the Great’s great friend […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Cripes, there’s a lot to say about today’s episode. Marx was never really a disciple of Feuerbach – he remained on friendly terms with him, which was a pretty big deal for Marx, who happily tore apart long standing friendships […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It might not seem like it, but I like Gertrude Stein’s books. I have Frederick looking somewhat ridiculous a lot of the time too, but he’s still one of the four great heroes in my life. Stein once said that […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hmmm…. I just noticed that I cocked up the script for today’s episode and wrote Augsburg, of “German Heads of State Can Choose Whether Their Realm is Catholic or Lutheran” fame, where I meant to write Rheinsberg, where Frederick spent […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
First of all, I have to apologize for the Chatter Silence last week. My grandfather died, and between traveling to the funeral, wrangling with relatives, and general existential shock, I wasn’t good for much beyond Hyjal quests in Warcraft and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While up in Washington for my grandfather’s funeral, I was tasked with entertaining relatives, and so, going into default mode, searched out the local board game store, and it turned out that it was way rad. If you are in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…