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Ancient World
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Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,
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― All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
― All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
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Truth-telling is a delicate dance between exposure and imposture, a dance whose steps I’m beginning to learn. When Theodora found me in the scriptorium, I was twenty-one. Still young, but I’d seen enough to feel old.
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― The Eagle and the Swan
― The Eagle and the Swan














































