Egypt (La Mort De Philae) by Pierre Loti















































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In the daytime this Museum of Egyptian Antiquities is as vulgar a
thing as you can conceive, filled though it - Page 29
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In The Daytime This "Museum Of Egyptian Antiquities" Is As Vulgar A Thing As You Can Conceive, Filled Though It Is With Priceless Treasures.

It is the most pompous, the most outrageous of those buildings, of no style at all, by which each

Year the New Cairo is enriched; open to all who care to gaze at close quarters, in a light that is almost brutal, upon these august dead, who fondly thought that they had hidden themselves for ever.

But at night! . . . Ah! at night when all the doors are closed, it is the palace of nightmare and of fear. At night, so say the Arab guardians, who would not enter it at the price of gold - no, not even after offering up a prayer - at night, horrible "forms" escape, not only from the embalmed bodies that sleep in the glass cases above, but also from the great statues, from the papyri, and the thousand and one things that, at the bottom of the tombs, have long been impregnated with human essence. And these "forms" are like unto dead bodies, and sometimes to strange beasts, even to beasts that crawl. And, after having wandered about the halls, they end by assembling for their nocturnal conferences on the roofs.

We next ascend a staircase of monumental proportions, empty in the whole extent, where we are delivered for a little while from the obsession of those rigid figures, from the stares and smiles of the good people in white stone and black granite who throng the galleries and vestibules on the ground floor.

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