Happy Samhain, everyone. Don’t forget to carve your turnips, to guide the dead on their journey.
As soon as I could collect my scattered senses, I found myself nearly suffocated, and groveling in utter darkness among a quantity of loose earth, which was also falling upon me heavily in every direction, threatening to bury me entirely.
Quotation from Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
I went to the Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs exhibit at the de Young museum yesterday.
Within a yard of the doorway, stretching as far as one could see and blocking the entrance to the chamber, stood what to all appearances was a solid wall of gold. For the moment there was no clue as to its meaning, so as quickly as I dared I set to work to widen the hole.
Quotation from Howard Carter, on entering King Tut’s burial chamber