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</div><div id=":1iz" class="" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div id=":1iy" style="overflow:hidden"><div class="im">On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 11:27 PM, Christopher Simon<br><<a href="mailto:kierkegaurdian@gmail.com">kierkegaurdian@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> She mentioned her favorite was a history of Rome written by Lafferty. Has<br>> anyone read it? Thoughts?<br><br></div>_The Fall of Rome_ has come up once or twice on the Lafferty forums.<br>It's a pretty odd book. I had the opportunity to read most of it in a<br>
library once. IIRC, it was sort of a nonfiction account written in a<br>novelistic manner, and I didn't know what to make of it because I<br>didn't know how much of it was standard history and how much was<br>Lafferty's extrapolations or interpolations or editorializing.</div>
</div></div><div><br></div>Pretty much the same situation for me when I read most of it, Gwern. But for an aficionado there are Laffertian gold nuggets in there, and it was interesting to see him write a few passages that felt almost like his unique version of high fantasy, which is something I've never seen him attempt elsewhere. Interesting connections with Wolfe there... -DOJP </div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:30 AM, Gwern Branwen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gwern@gwern.net" target="_blank">gwern@gwern.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 11:27 PM, Christopher Simon<br>
<<a href="mailto:kierkegaurdian@gmail.com">kierkegaurdian@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> She mentioned her favorite was a history of Rome written by Lafferty. Has<br>
> anyone read it? Thoughts?<br>
<br>
</div>_The Fall of Rome_ has come up once or twice on the Lafferty forums.<br>
It's a pretty odd book. I had the opportunity to read most of it in a<br>
library once. IIRC, it was sort of a nonfiction account written in a<br>
novelistic manner, and I didn't know what to make of it because I<br>
didn't know how much of it was standard history and how much was<br>
Lafferty's extrapolations or interpolations or editorializing.<br>
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gwern<br>
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