What if you gave a fanfic and nobody came?

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I would like to be told that someone had at least read the fragment I published yesterday. I realize that the title did not sound too exciting, but I would not have published it if I didn't think it was fun.

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Re: I liked it

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No, because that's a lie. The true story is as follows: in 1853, Pope Pius IX called a sort of council of all his country's lay and clerical experts, financiers, bankers, ministers and so on, to ask them one serious question: gentlemen, is there any way for us to build a railway network? The assembly debated for days and its final conclusion was: Holy Father, that's just not possible, we don't have the capital needed for such an undertaking. NOnetheless, work was started on a small-scale network around the city of Rome, which is to this day, recognizably, the infrastructure of Rome's railway lines. When you hear stories like that, remember that party struggle in Italy at the time was even bitterer than it is now, and that nobody was too fussed about libelling an opponent. On the other side, Catholics had no scruples about inventing and spreading a wholly false story that Garibaldi had been a slave trader.