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the stories where men have the last laugh over women are much less satisfying and much more cruel than those the other way around

bi rep👀

oh I remember this one with the falcon

somehow did not expect the stories about using your wits to obtain something rare to be mostly about how to sleep with someone else’s wife

this guy shouldn’t have gotten “the last laugh” in the end given how he treated his wife

”between March and July more than a hundred thousand human beings are in all certainly believed to have lost their lives within the walls of Florence. […] Before the plague struck who would have believed the city even numbered that many inhabitants.”