Rev. DP.
"History does not unfold: it piles up and is dug out. The first and
most wonderful of books, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, tells us that
its lore is immemorial, the entire book having been written by the god
Thoth, in whose divine nature all the thousands of scribes and
copyists who produced the millions of potsherds and papyrus scraps in
which the Book subsists, directly participated. This earliest book
explicitly declares and rejoices in the antiquity of its wisdom, which
is smeared and smelly with mansmell, *therefore* divine; and it
celebrates all chaotic fragmentation as the work of a supernal and
lucid intelligence."
-- Robert M. Adams, "Rags, Garbage, and Fantasy"
