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j
ust a few
minutes
later…
…and so, in
conclusion,
there were
many
valid reasons
for rome’s
decline—public
health problems,
moral decay and
unemployment.
thank you.
wake
up, half-
mast.
huh?
whazzat?
two hours later…
wasn’t that
fascinating? that
professor knowitall
really knows it all!
y
a
w
n!
knows it all?
hah!
he doesn’t know the
half of it!
what?
how can you
say that? professor
knowitall has spent
most of his
life
studying the
roman empire.
yeah,
but
he
wasn’t
there.
I happen to have an
ancestor who was a
soldier in the roman
army about that time.
why am I
not
surprised? it
seems like you
have a relative
strategically
placed at just
about every
major point
in
history.
I’d
love
to
take a look at
your
family
tree.
as I was saying,
half-
masticus
meccanicum was
right there.
and according
to his diary, which has been
handed down from father to
son over the centuries…
…lack of
pm
was what
really caused the fall
of the roman empire.
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