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The Vanishing Man

CHAPTER VIII
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I fell in love with it the first time I saw it.

And it is so Greek!" "Yes, it is, in spite of the Egyptian gods and symbols." "Rather because of them, I think," said she.

"There we have the typical Greek attitude, the genial, cultivated eclecticism that appreciated the fitness of even the most alien forms of art.

There is Anubis standing beside the bier; there are Isis and Nephthys, and there below, Horus and Tahuti.

But we can't suppose that Artemidorus worshipped or believed in those gods.


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