Saturday, 30 August 2025

That Other Egypt

That Other Egypt (2025)
Eibonvale Press

There is more than one Egypt.

There is the Egypt of reality and dreams, a realm of impossible nostalgia, a sandblown land cut by the mightiest of rivers, ancient and enigmatic, the days swirling with the dust of millennia, the nights thick with the accumulated echoes of countless generations, alluring, exotic, often arcane, a focus of desire for generations of archaeologists.

But parallel Egypts exist too, more sinister and even more mysterious, where pyramids are inverted and every object that can be mummified will be. Some of these alternative Egypts might be found inside our heads, others will transform those heads into geometrical travesties of themselves.

Egypt is a multiplicity, an infinite layering of secrets.

Contents:

Mummyfixation * Nile by Mouth * Why Mummy is a Pharaoh * Ponzihotep * The Lighthouse Sisters * Toot and Come In * Cloud Hunter * The Taming of the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shrew * The Universal Set * A Tomb with a View