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every time we meet a new character it's like, "Vittorio Pironetti wore short pants and had a big forehead and was really depressing to be around," and then you click the footnote and it says, "Vittorio Pironetti was the greatest Italian literary critic of his time, a lifelong Marxist, and slayed 45 fascists single-handedly, after which he was exiled."