Over at Josh’s Blog, A Discussion About Evelyn Waugh’s "Decline and Fall"

“Decline and Fall” is my second favorite book and I must have read it 9284379279347827 times by now. I highly encourage you to contribute to the discussion at Josh’s blog if you’ve read it, or read it and then start contributing.

I should say that putting the book in the genre of “satire” tends to marginalize it. It is far, far more than that – it’s really about an age where a lot seems to have been lost, and the question is what exactly that might have been.

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June 3, 2007 – 10:13 pm | By ashok | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged books | Comments (1)

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Gracchi wrote:

June 4, 2007 at 5:12 pm

I don’t think you’ve read it enough :)

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