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of the Great Sphinx. Compare ChephrenтАЩs
statue and the Sphinx: were not their
faces the same? Anciently, as Tuthmosis,
he had excavated and restored the man-lion
from the stars.

To prove it, he brought down lightning,
made stars dance, grew younger instead of
older, humped or killed, without
compunction, everyone, high and low, male
or female, drawing his strength, he
declared, from the Father of Terror, Abu
al-Hawl, the Great Sphinx. He visited the
Father of Terror yearly, in El Giza.
Travel was difficult, but he had an easier
way in mind, more present and more
permanent. That is why he gathered his
Space People. That is why he drilled a
hole in my mind. Many holes he drilled, to

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no effect, in many souls: the Space
People. But at the bottom of the hole in
my mind he glimpsed Abu.



8. Oil of Cloves

"What do I do? What am I supposed to do?
You havenтАЩt told me anything!"

They were pulling away, about to leave me
at the rest stop. SarvaduhkaтАЩs squareback
screeched to a stop, sending a cloud of
dust back into my face. I ran to IzzyтАЩs
window. Sarvaduhka was gritting his teeth
and peevishly chanting, "Female action,
female action, Izzy. This is what you
promised me. This is what my vacation is
about. Female action, female action,
female action."

"Never mind Sergeant Ducky," Izzy told me
through the window. "Jeez! WeтАЩll see you
next year. YouтАЩll live till then, donтАЩt
worry. I plugged you; thatтАЩs all I do this
time. Just remember, that thing is a