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I liked it best-if I had to share with the others-when he read to us aloud.

Surrounding himself with candelabra, he spoke in a hushed and sympathetic voice. He read The Divine Comedy by Dante, the Decameron by Boccaccio, or in French The Romance of the Rose or the poems of Francois Villon.
He spoke of the new languages we must understand as well as we understood Greek and Latin. He warned us that literature would no longer be confined to the classic works.

We sat in silence around him, on pillows, or on the naked tile. Some of us stood near him. Others rested back on their heels.
(...)
I had no jealousy. I alone shared the Master's bed.

The Vampire Armand

As you can see I took a few minor artistic liberties, mainly with the light - candelabras around them would make the shadows really bizarre and I hate figuring out how they work even with simple light-sources

- And I made Marius read Greek myths instead of one of the mentioned texts, because I imagined him telling them the story of how Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to the humans, after which the gods punished him and then the humans, by creating the perfect human woman, Pandora, who were to bring a box of misfortunes to the human race

I did want to have him read Dante at one point actually, but in Blood and Gold, Marius mentions that he dislikes Dante, so I didn't - oh well

Description
I liked it best-if I had to share with the others-when he read to us aloud.

Surrounding himself with candelabra, he spoke in a hushed and sympathetic voice. He read The Divine Comedy by Dante, the Decameron by Boccaccio, or in French The Romance of the Rose or the poems of Francois Villon.
He spoke of the new languages we must understand as well as we understood Greek and Latin. He warned us that literature would no longer be confined to the classic works.

We sat in silence around him, on pillows, or on the naked tile. Some of us stood near him. Others rested back on their heels.
(...)
I had no jealousy. I alone shared the Master's bed.

The Vampire Armand

As you can see I took a few minor artistic liberties, mainly with the light - candelabras around them would make the shadows really bizarre and I hate figuring out how they work even with simple light-sources

- And I made Marius read Greek myths instead of one of the mentioned texts, because I imagined him telling them the story of how Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to the humans, after which the gods punished him and then the humans, by creating the perfect human woman, Pandora, who were to bring a box of misfortunes to the human race

I did want to have him read Dante at one point actually, but in Blood and Gold, Marius mentions that he dislikes Dante, so I didn't - oh well