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I have started reading a volume of letters and poems by Veronica Franco. I'd heard about her, even seen a few minute's worth of Dangerous Beauty, which apparently was much more melodramatic than her real life story was, back in grade school, when a classmate did a presentation about courtesans in Renaissance Italy. So far, I've mainly been struck by how ridiculously elaborate her prose is. I haven't read enough Renaissance Italian writings to know how typical that is, but even so. Still, for all the flowery sentences and extra turns of phrase, I don't actually find her that hard to understand, which makes her an improvement on too many of the more elaborate prose writers I've read.
Have now made very real progress on Baldur's Gate 3, reaching the Underdark, and Shadowheart was right: it is a beautiful place, however dangerous and deadly. I am still not proving the best at figuring out things on my own while playing, but maybe I've gotten slightly better at navigating. I think I may even write fanfic at some point. I'm starting to understand why so many people write about their Tavs. Though the whole Lae'zel/Shadowheart dynamic intrigues me, too. Had them both in the party for the first time this week, and wow, were they chatty. Not at all friendly, but it's early goings yet.