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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
Can I do a write-in for all six volumes of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon?  |
What a great idea! I put Either/Or by your chum Søren Kierkegaard back in the shelf. I close for the moment Null Space, no pardon me Flat World that I was reading in advance hopeful as I was of a good result. And I jump in the middlle of Gibbon, at page 173 of volume 4 of Everyman's library. in any case it's chap. XL, where he affirms that Chinese and Indian navigators were conducted by the flight of birds and periodical winds. And in my opinion that statement is pure BS! How could they know that the winds were periodicals? Imagination, by their part and by his: That was really his great gift. Interesting eh?