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| ...just as surely as they built it on their desert land in stone |
'Anson Hunter looked at the black and red script and illuminated
vignettes and then beyond them to the network of the papyrus fibres, the grainy
weft and warp, little horizons intersecting lines of hierarchy, heaven and
earth, god and humankind. On this sand-coloured surface the Egyptians had built
a civilization in ink, just as surely as they built it on their desert land
in stone.'
