Decline and Fall makes brilliant use of two literary techniques that invert one's conventional responses to the ebb and flow of life's occurrences. The first describes the most outrageous and unlikely events in the deadpan tones of a newspaper reporter and leaves the reader to imagine just how bizarre things actually were. The second takes a stock situation, such as a plea for mercy or a meditation upon the death of a friend, and presents it in the.....
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