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"Article 22 of the Constitution laid down a standard procedure for dealing with the present type of emergency..."But alas, it is completely beyond the power of Article 22 or anything else to protect the Metropolitan Egyptological Society from the Lee Eddington Schwartz disturbance which brews suddenly on a cold winter evening, or from the pyramiding alarms and confusions which follow.Should the reader be, at first, in some doubt as to the real nature of the activities of the Egyptologists, he must not be surprised. The members' expertise in camouflage and deception has baffled many perceptive persons. The Society has been suspected at various times of engaging in espionage, in drug-smuggling, in the activity implied by its all-male membership, and even in Egyptology.What is the Metropolitan Egyptological Society? What goes on behind the locked doors of its Isis Room? What is the significance of the safeguards listed in Article 22? Those who pursue these questions in the pages of The Egyptologists will come not only to the centre of the mystery, but also to one of the most outrageously funny spoofs of the season.
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The Egyptologists, Kingsley Amis, Robert Conquest
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- Pubblicato
- 1968
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- Titolo
- The Egyptologists
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Kingsley Amis, Robert Conquest
- Pubblicato
- 1968
- Serie
- Tag
- Narrativa, Umorismo, Letteratura inglese, Adattato in un film, Egitto, Antico Egitto, Egittologia
- Prima pubblicazione
- 1965
- Titolo originale
- The Egyptologists
- Valutazione
- 3,95 su 5
- Descrizione
- "Article 22 of the Constitution laid down a standard procedure for dealing with the present type of emergency..."But alas, it is completely beyond the power of Article 22 or anything else to protect the Metropolitan Egyptological Society from the Lee Eddington Schwartz disturbance which brews suddenly on a cold winter evening, or from the pyramiding alarms and confusions which follow.Should the reader be, at first, in some doubt as to the real nature of the activities of the Egyptologists, he must not be surprised. The members' expertise in camouflage and deception has baffled many perceptive persons. The Society has been suspected at various times of engaging in espionage, in drug-smuggling, in the activity implied by its all-male membership, and even in Egyptology.What is the Metropolitan Egyptological Society? What goes on behind the locked doors of its Isis Room? What is the significance of the safeguards listed in Article 22? Those who pursue these questions in the pages of The Egyptologists will come not only to the centre of the mystery, but also to one of the most outrageously funny spoofs of the season.