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3. Spitzer R, Williams J, Gibbon M, et al.
In one place he shows how the rhetorical shape of a passage in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , with its paired images and a ribbing of parallel verbs, finds a visual counterpoint in works of landscape design and even dance notation.
But Gibbon's source apparatus and sotto voce commentary in Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire remain more accessible and entertaining to ordinary readers.
Gibbon straightforwardly observes at one point, for instance, that the emperor Marcus Aurelius thanked the gods in his Meditations for giving him a wife "so faithful, so gentle, and of such a wonderful simplicity of manners."
Sounds flood in from all sides: the buzz and whine of crickets, the chatter of squirrels, the poop-poop-poop of hornbills, the cries of gibbon apes.