The more things change ...

[kiya]

... 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
like a runaway, snapping all ties,
With my bundle of old clothes over my shoulder.

I'm going down there where the living is,
going down there to that big city,
And there I'll tell Ptah (Lord who loves justice):
"Give me a girl tonight!"

[...]

Haven't I heard that tune on the radio?

Comments

[shana.livejournal.com]

I didn't know country music was that old!

[rosefox]

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

[ardaniel]

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

[kiya]

Well. He is taking the ferry.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

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

[kiya]

So it would seem.

[ibnfirnas.livejournal.com]

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

[liminal-spaces.livejournal.com]

...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.

[kiya]

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

[jinian.livejournal.com]

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.)