ANCIENT EGYPT

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Norman in Egypt | Harold Bloom

"Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state." With this artful sentence, Norman Mailer begins his Book of the Dead. Our most conspicuous literary

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"... even the most avid enthusiasts of buggery, whether heterosexual or homosexual, may flinch at confronting Mailer’s narrative exuberance in heaping up sodomistic rapes... "

"... I don’t intend to give an elaborate plot summary, since if you read Ancient Evenings for the story, you will hang yourself."

Sounds a bit like a certain novel known to @IdleRich, by Bill Drummond and 'Zodiac Mindwarp.'

Apparently 'buggery' was an absolute obsession of Mailer's, so pronounced that Bloom claims he may be "verging upon a new metaphysic".

Buggery even as a word has Gnostic origins, alluding as it does to the Bogomils or Bulgar Manichaeans. As a metaphysician of the belly (self-titled), Mailer had some earlier inclination toward regarding buggery as an antinomian act—a transgression of all the rules of a deeply false order that would reveal a higher truth (see the buggering of Ruta, the German maid, in An American Dream and “The Time of Her Time”). In Ancient Evenings he has emancipated himself, and seems to be verging upon a new metaphysic, in which heterosexual buggery might be the true norm (as it may have seemed to the Lawrence of Lady Chatterley’s Lover), and more conventional intercourse perhaps is to be reserved for the occult operation of reincarnating oneself in the womb of the beloved.​

 

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@Corpsey @luka

Ramses the Second is a beautiful and potent male god, usually called Usermare, while the scarcely less potent Meni is condemned to be the perpetual worshipper of his pharaoh, a condemnation enacted by way of a ferociously divine bumbuggering of Meni the First by Ramses, which in true Maileresque terms sets up the dilemma that all Meni’s magic will never resolve. To have been bumbuggered by one’s precursor is a sublime new variant on the sorrows of literary influence, but evidently it does not inhibit the strong sons of strong fathers from bumbuggering the Muse, a delicious revenge carried out by the magician Meni upon the queen and goddess Nefertiti, prime wife of Ramses the Second.​

 

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"a ferociously divine bumbuggering"

 

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"bumbuggering the Muse"

 

[sufi]

I think sufi lived in ancient Egypt for a bit

Its true

 

[Corpsey]

Ancient Egypt was the first school subject I remember being really into.

Gods with heads like animals and mummification. How could any schoolchild resist?

I've been to Egypt too of course, whence I shat myself, my bowel Nile springing its banks. I saw the Pyramids, skulked around temples avoiding beggars, sailed the Nile...

And I love that tune Nights Over Egypt.

Very powerful mythos/art culture, up there with the Greeks.

 

[sufi]

The work of art is a pyramid which stands in the desert, uselessly: jackals piss at the base of it, and bourgeois clamber to the top of it; (Julian Barnes)

 

[Corpsey]

I think what kids love about ancient Egypt is the juxtaposition of imagination and morbidity

When you're that young death isn't really a scary thing, it's fascinating and cool, somehow, you love to read about the mummified corpses and how they extracted the brains through the nostrils with a hook

 

[Mr. Tea]

I think what kids love about ancient Egypt is the juxtaposition of imagination and morbidity

When you're that young death isn't really a scary thing, it's fascinating and cool, somehow, you love to read about the mummified corpses and how they extracted the brains through the nostrils with a hook

Egyptian morbidity is a gateway drug to Mesoamerican morbidity.

 

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That Marvel character Moon Knight's all about ancient Egypt. They did a TV series a few years ago where a bunch of Egyptian deities showed up.

 

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The work of art is a pyramid which stands in the desert, uselessly: jackals piss at the base of it, and bourgeois clamber to the top of it; (Julian Barnes)

quoting flaubert

 

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quoting dilbert

 

[pattycakes_]

Def the coolest subject for a kid. Was mine by far

 

[Corpsey]

 

[luka]

assasins creed origins

 

[luka]

altho thats not ancient egypt ancient eygpt is already ancient by that point. its cleoparta times. its mad how ancient ancient egypt is. its mega ancient. its like, stonehenge times. mental eh.

 

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[luka]

not seen that

 

[Mr. Tea]

altho thats not ancient egypt ancient eygpt is already ancient by that point. its cleoparta times. its mad how ancient ancient egypt is. its mega ancient. its like, stonehenge times. mental eh.

Yeah, it's pretty crazy to consider that she was closer to our times than she was to when the Great Pyramid was built.

Or that when Ramses the Great built his temples at Karnak, the Great Pyramid was already older than Notre Dame or Westminster Abbey is now.

 

[luka]

she was closer to our times than she was to when the Great Pyramid was built.

thats what it tells you in the game. minblowing.