if this tracks. One of the goons that Amun sent after my girls, as he was dying, he said ‘The ground will split open with the heels of their feet.’ I thought it sounded familiar.” He spoke a mile a minute, gesticulating with his hands as he did. “It’s a line from the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Sumerian poem… The rest of it goes, ‘As they whirled in circles, Mount Hermon and Lebanon split.’ It’s referring to Gilgamesh’s battle with Humbaba.” Thank you, Professor Lawson, he thought. The reason it had sounded so familiar was because he had taught it once, years ago, when he was an adjunct professor
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