It has art in it! "I don't technically know very much about art," remarks Bella, "mostly because it seems sort of silly for it to be the kind of thing you have to know much about."

"I never really looked into it much either. I can tell when I think something is pretty and that's about it." She alternates between looking at the paintings and looking somewhat more admiringly at Bella, the latter mostly when Bella is looking the other way.

"That having been said we should make sure we check out the Mona Lisa as long as we're here."

"Yeah, definitely. It'd just be too silly to visit the Louvre and not see it."

"Are you sure? It could be performance art."

Sporfle! "It would be extremely silly performance art. Which I admit would not make it that different from some things art people acknowledge as artistically interesting."

"And we forgot to sell tickets."

"No, no, that's part of the art piece, the audience is whoever happens to be nearby. It's found art except the found component is people."

"Ah, right, capitalism got to me when I really needed to be thinking about the integrity of the message."

Heeee. "We should see the Mona Lisa, though, I want to know if it looks different in person than in photographs."

"I'm low key expecting to be underwhelmed, it's hyped up pretty good."

"Yeah, I have a hard time imagining how something could live up to that much hype." At least it's easy to find; even if there weren't any signage they could just follow the herd of other tourists.

"Welp. It's a painting."

"It has paint. And brushstrokes, I'll admit you can't see the individual brushstrokes in photos most of the time."

"That's true. If only I'd studied art I'd know what I was supposed to get out of brushstrokes."

"I guess you'll just have to be content with all the other stuff you're good at."

"Yup. Woe is me." She catches hold of Margaret's hand to tug her away from the Mona Lisa crowd.

Eeee handholding! Margaret is very tuggable.

There is lots of art in the Louvre. Bella likes the decorative art exhibit.

Decorative art is pretty great. Margaret's especially a fan of the stained glass.

"Maybe if we crack immortality I will pick up some kind of arts 'n crafts one day."

"Yeah. I'm not sure what I'll do when, but I guess I'd get around to art eventually unless people keep inventing interesting things faster than I can do them. What do you think you'll do first, if we run out of problems to solve?"

"Well, I said that because I was admiring the stained glass, but I probably won't wind up making that decision having recently looked at stained glass, so I don't know."

"Fair. I often think it would be really cool to read every good book ever written, but I expect if I ever do that I'll end up interspersing it with a lot of other things."

"Yeah, reading is fun but you have to ever take breaks."