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ehines: This farcical accout of a dig might put you in the mood for a much more realistic one fset just a decade or so later. based on a real english barrow dig.
ehines: Another epistolary novel with an unreliable narrator. Phillips' novel is out-and-out parody, while Dibdin is only, I suspect, being very subtly parodic of a certain set of literary expectations.
31 Dec. Sunset. Outside the tomb of Atum-hadu. On the Victrola 50: "I'm Sitting on the Back Porch Swing (Wont You Come Sit by Me, Dear?)."
Quotations
If, Margaret, you are reading this letter, sobbing, horrified at your double loss but girding yourself and your pen for the vital tasks ahead of you, then I do not hesitate to accuse from here, before the commission of the dreadful crime itself, the maniacal Howard Carter, whose name you may perhaps have heard in recent weeks, the half-mad, congenitally lucky bumbler who tripped over a stair and fell into the suspiciously well-preserved tomb of some minor XVIIIth-Dynasty boy-kinglet named Trite-and-Common and who, in crippling jealousy, has several times threatened my person in the past months, both whilst sober and whilst intoxicated on a variety of local narcotic inhalants.
"Boy, how can you think it wise to truck with this culture of death?" Even at ten I knew the correct answer to that cataclysmic catechism: "Right you are, Father. Much better to stick with the life-embracing imagery of a cult that worships a bleeding corpse nailed to bits of wood."
Last words
His mysteries and riddles remain unsolved for millennia stacked upon millennia until another should find him, and win, for discoverer and king alike, the eternal love due an immortal name, Atum-hadu and Trilipush, Trilipush and Atum-hadu, Trilipush, Trilipush, Trilipush.