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Gulliver’s Travels PART 1

  In this first episode in a four part series, Jim Easton and Dr. Fleming talk about the First Book of Gulliver’s Travels and set the work in its historical context.  The series is being offered as a gift to Charter Subscribers, and, when it is complete,  the episodes will be made available at a small fee to non-charter subscribers and the general public.

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Wednesday’s Child: Beefsteak and Liberty

Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is a big book, six bulky volumes in all, but only two things about it have stayed with me after so many years.  One is that I have not known a better English stylist, before or since, and so when I think of what Rome must have been in its glory, I think of Gibbon’s galleried prose.  The other is the story he tells of Attila, king of the Huns, who boasted of never having had bread pass his lips.

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HELP!

The first volume of Properties of Blood has been ready to go for some time, but I have failed to find a designer for the covers.  It should be an easy task, since I want something even simpler than the cover of The Morality of Everyday Life, but I am completely at sea.  I used to have people working for me who could deal with these things or a contract with a regular publisher.  I am out of my element and would appreciate any recommendations or assistance,