The Fall

"TEXT composed by Johanna Drucker through compression as derivatives from two different sources: news stories between November 8, 2016, the day Donald Trump was elected, and April 25, 2017, three months into his presidency, and from Edward Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1, published 1776. The text in this book is derived from the Gutenberg online file which is identified as written in 1782 and published posthumously in 1845 with notes and revision by Reverend H.H. Milman. Source text is: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/731/731-h/731-h.htm#link2HCH0001 The contrasts and comparisons are obvious. DESIGN, photographs, digital collages, * production--Brad Freeman. Offset printed on the Heidelberg GTO at the Center for Book, Paper & Print, Columbia College Chicago, in spring & summer 2018. THE FALL is published as an insert with JAB44 (fall 2018)."--colophon