Edward Gibbon -- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

24 minutes, 20 of which are prefatory stuff, and then 4 minutes of chapter 1, on Out Loud, In Clear, an imaginary podcast of a silly guy who can't pronounce correctly most names and places, but is like a lobotomy patient all to glad to be recording the finest works of strung together words that have survived the fires of despotic regimes. Over time, if granted by the fates, more portions may follow, and each major work shall have their own post, in which to lure others like a mighty angel towards reading them for yourselves. And generally as a record which may survive any event in which the acquisition of such records are deemed wrong, and more difficult as it has been with the dizzying freedom enjoyed this far in the 21st century.

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