The Headpiece for the Staff of Ra

The Staff was really just a big stick…Anyway, it was capped by an elaborate headpiece with a carving of the sun at the top. What you had to do was take the Staff to a special map room in Tanis--it had the whole city laid out in miniature on the floor. When you placed the Staff in a certain spot in this room, at a certain time of day, the sun would shine through a hole here in the headpiece and then send a beam of light down here—to the map--giving you the location of the Well of the Souls...

April 12, 2007

KV 1922-2007

Kurt Vonnegut, who was born in Indianapolis and called himself a `Hoosier', fell down several weeks ago. He died last night. So it goes.
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