{"product_id":"2940015718676","title":"THE SPELL OF EGYPT","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    THE PYRAMIDS\u003cbr\u003e    THE SPHINX\u003cbr\u003e    SAKKARA\u003cbr\u003e    ABYDOS\u003cbr\u003e    THE NILE\u003cbr\u003e    DENDERAH\u003cbr\u003e    KARNAK\u003cbr\u003e    LUXOR\u003cbr\u003e    COLOSSI OF MEMNON\u003cbr\u003e    MEDINET-ABU\u003cbr\u003e    THE RAMESSEUM\u003cbr\u003e    DEIR-EL-BAHARI\u003cbr\u003e    THE TOMBS OF THE KINGS\u003cbr\u003e    EDFU\u003cbr\u003e    KOM OMBOS\u003cbr\u003e    PHILAE\u003cbr\u003e    \"PHARAOH'S BED\"\u003cbr\u003e    OLD CAIRO\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE PYRAMIDS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy do you come to Egypt? Do you come to gain a dream, or to regain lost\u003cbr\u003edreams of old; to gild your life with the drowsy gold of romance,\u003cbr\u003eto lose a creeping sorrow, to forget that too many of your hours are\u003cbr\u003esullen, grey, bereft? What do you wish of Egypt?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Sphinx will not ask you, will not care. The Pyramids, lifting their\u003cbr\u003eunnumbered stones to the clear and wonderful skies, have held, still\u003cbr\u003ehold, their secrets; but they do not seek for yours. The terrific\u003cbr\u003etemples, the hot, mysterious tombs, odorous of the dead desires of men,\u003cbr\u003ecrouching in and under the immeasurable sands, will muck you with their\u003cbr\u003ebrooding silence, with their dim and sombre repose. The brown children\u003cbr\u003eof the Nile, the toilers who sing their antique songs by the shadoof and\u003cbr\u003ethe sakieh, the dragomans, the smiling goblin merchants, the Bedouins\u003cbr\u003ewho lead your camel into the pale recesses of the dunes--these will not\u003cbr\u003etrouble themselves about your deep desires, your perhaps yearning hunger\u003cbr\u003eof the heart and the imagination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet Egypt is not unresponsive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI came back to her with dread, after fourteen years of absence--years\u003cbr\u003efilled for me with the rumors of her changes. And on the very day of my\u003cbr\u003earrival she calmly reassured me. She told me in her supremely magical\u003cbr\u003eway that all was well with her. She taught me once more a lesson I had\u003cbr\u003enot quite forgotten, but that I was glad to learn again--the lesson that\u003cbr\u003eEgypt owes her most subtle, most inner beauty to Kheper, although she\u003cbr\u003eowes her marvels to men; that when he created the sun which shines upon\u003cbr\u003eher, he gave her the lustre of her life, and that those who come to her\u003cbr\u003emust be sun-worshippers if they would truly and intimately understand\u003cbr\u003ethe treasure or romance that lies heaped within her bosom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThoth, says the old legend, travelled in the Boat of the Sun. If you\u003cbr\u003ewould love Egypt rightly, you, too, must be a traveller in that bark.\u003cbr\u003eYou must not fear to steep yourself in the mystery of gold, in the\u003cbr\u003emystery of heat, in the mystery of silence that seems softly showered\u003cbr\u003eout of the sun. The sacred white lotus must be your emblem, and Horus,\u003cbr\u003ethe hawk-headed, merged in Ra, your special deity. Scarcely had I set\u003cbr\u003efoot once more in Egypt before Thoth lifted me into the Boat of the sun\u003cbr\u003eand soothed my fears to sleep.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47080973697264,"sku":"2940015718676","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015718676","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}