Oh, I wasn't denigrating Gibbon. It's just that "Decline and Fall" is one of those monumental tomes (like Capital) that one always feels one needs to read in order to be "educated", but are so daunting sitting there on the shelf. Maybe its just that my attention span has diminished as I've gotten older, but I can't tear through difficult 1000+ page books like I used to...
Jim Baird
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