which I have yet to travel every byway. Each successive chapter contained literally many hundreds of new words that had not appeared even in his own previous chapters! Finally, some deep errors arise because the source text itself, Project Gutenberg's Gibbon, contains some flaws.

In sum, what began in levity, then developed into a protracted, private, and informal labor of love, is now offered to the public as a first draft, a Gutenberg "xxxxx10.mp3", mostly correct, of that rare entertainment, dramatic scholarship, rendered into the charismatic medium of the spoken word. The justification of its unredeemed state is that for now, granting the superiority of perfection, if available, there is yet much value in any reasonably integral creation especially if the alternative is nothing. To anyone who reads this, listens to the material, finds blemishes, and cares, I will be happy to send you, in your thousands, the software, gratis save cost of materials and shipping, enabling you to make your own corrections, which you can then share with us all.

David Ceponis
Berkeley, California
September 05, 2002

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