About the same time, I learned that when five different Spanish patriotic songs are played at once, it creates a cacophonic, discordant din that approximates to redirecting a military parade through a Placido Domingo concert whose attendees are staging a singalong induced by LSD. Even in the Internet age, it is too much to expect a neighborhood to organize a coherent musical programme: no, in the name of expression we'll applaud, play our favourite ones concurrently, and damn the results.
Donna is right, the Decameron was the first lockdown fiction. It was the Renaissance counterpart to Elvis or the Beatles; a realization that things wouldn't be the same again, and would change in ways nobody could predict.
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