“I think it was an important thing to do, especially for you guys. You know, the Egyptians thought there were two kinds of time, one linear, and one cyclical, one ritualistic, one everyday. After a death, everyday time easily returns to take over and rule your life. It’s one of the reasons they had so many rituals, I’m now realizing, to deal with the dead—it was to push back everyday time and make space for contemplation of the cosmic. When you do something like this, you step outside of everyday time for a moment, and that’s good.”
