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Okay. I have an exam in two hours, and I can't make head or tails of any of this, so ... that probably won't go very well. *quivers* Oh, crap.

Did watch 3x15 Wingman to try and calm down.

( Spoilers, sort of )

The Mummy's Foot

The Mummy's Foot, by Theophile Gautier, 1840.

I should be doing last minute study, but keeping calm seems more important, so. I've just reread it -it's been years- and ... oh my. *grins, shakes head* I had forgotten - romantic, gothic, so foolish, in its way.

Written in 1840. How could I have forgotten what that meant? The casual racism, the typing of people's personality by race, the knocking of other religions as curios, undivine ... And, of course, I had forgotten that this was before Lyell and Darwin, so no Deep Time, and that understandings of Ancient Egypt operate through the lense of the Biblical Flood. *grins in amazement* The Pharoahs are numbered by whether they come before or after the Flood, and the seventy two pre-Adamite peoples, lost ... Fascinating.

Of course, we won't even talk about a gentleman using a mummy's foot for a paperweight. The archaeologist in me is having enough trouble as it is. Not to mention fondling it, both him and the dealer. For heaven's sakes people, that is NOT how you treat thousands-of-years-old organic tissue!

*snickers* Oh, I had forgotten. A wonderful little story, and wholly unbelievable in ways that have nothing whatsoever to do with dream-visions of dead Egyptian princesses bringing you to the Halls of the Dead to meet her father.

Exam Finished

So. That went ... better than expected. Not actually well, mind you, but better than expected. Thank Heavens for being a pedestrian and reasonably attentive to my surroundings, that let me bluff rather well on the urban regeneration question -_-; Also, thank the Grande Parade Library for doing a photo exhibition on the city over the past century. Wonderful source for off-the-cuff comparisons.

*grins sheepishly* To quote my father, and grandfather: If you can't dazzle them with facts, bamboozle them with bullshit. I can now proudly say I am definitely my father's daughter. Heh.

Meme

Borrowed from shadadukal, because I'm tired and distractible at the minute:

Name me a character and I will tell you:

- Why I love them or why I dooooon't love them.
- Who I want them to Marry, Fuck, Kill Most Definitely Not Ever Fuck
- My favorite gen relationship with this character.
- An unpopular opinion about this character.
- One thing I wish would [have] happen[ed] with this character in canon.
- The fic I really want to read about them but haven't yet found.