[shibumi]

Suffering from Yeatsian disconfrabulation,
While mine is minded
Amid Joycean Jibberish Jousts
Of the New Frontier
As I sling my garrulous gats,
To play out yet another set with Set.

For I am but the Current Cowboy
In the Boat of Ra.

(Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way)

[SunkenCiv]

Now the statue of the very great Khepri rested in this place, great of fame, sacred of respect, the shade of Ra resting on him. Memphis and every city on its two sides came to him, their arms in adoration to his face, bearing great offerings for his Ka. One of these days it happened that prince Thutmose came travelling at the time of midday. He rested in the shadow of this great god. [Sleep and] dream [took possession of him] at the moment the sun was at zenith. Then he found the majesty of this noble god speaking from his own mouth like a father speaks to his son, and saying: "Look at me, observe me, my son Thutmose. I am your father Horem-Akhet-Khepri-Re-Atum. I shall give to you the kingship [upon the land before the living]....[Behold, my condition is like one in illness], all [my limbs being ruined]. The sand of the desert, upon which I used to be, (now) confronts me; and it is in order to cause that you do what is in my heart that I have waited.