What is this? I got through volume I and halfway through volume II and I can't follow it, because I don't care about anything that is going on. Why is this considered a masterpiece?
Well if you don't care about it why are you reading it?
I like the part where rome falls.
Imagining Nietzche without the moustache always makes me weep. I wish I could ride a wooly animal
>>8419739
its what it did for the profession at the time, not what its doing for it now, that makes it a masterpiece.
also Gibbon's style is brilliant and ur silly if u dont think so too.
>>8419739
>doesn't care about Rome
>is reading a 2000 page history of Rome
Are you retarded?
>"What is Rome to such as you?"