Comments | lilairen: The more things change ...

lilairen

The more things change ...

Jun 15, 2009 17:25

... you know, sometimes I think the Egyptian mindset in which ancientry proves truth is overblown.

... and then I find things like this (from Ancient Egyptian Literature, John L. Foster, trans.):

Oh, I'm bound downstream on the Memphis ferry ( Read more... )

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shana June 15 2009, 21:44:01 UTC

I didn't know country music was that old!

rosefox June 16 2009, 02:14:08 UTC

You really do have to read it in a drawl, don't you!

ardaniel June 15 2009, 22:34:18 UTC

All he needs is to have lost his Set-animal and his barge!

lilairen June 16 2009, 03:00:02 UTC

Well. He is taking the ferry.

xiphias June 15 2009, 23:54:09 UTC

So, basically, Memphis, Egypt and Memphis, TN are fundamentally the same place?

lilairen June 16 2009, 02:59:46 UTC

So it would seem.

ibnfirnas June 16 2009, 20:26:24 UTC

We knew this. You should hear Khnum on the harmonica.

liminal_spaces June 16 2009, 02:56:53 UTC

...maybe Steve Earle and Fred Eaglesmith have been cribbing stuff from ancient texts again? Or maybe it's just more proof that the more things change, the more they stay the same.

lilairen June 16 2009, 02:59:36 UTC

I'm all for Ecclesiastes 1:9 on this one.

jinian June 16 2009, 04:59:48 UTC

Summer blues are everywhere, all the time.

(I just read this aloud to Wim after he read me some other song lyrics, which pleased us both.)