http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2006/04/02/all-the-thumbs-from-alexander-govatskis-the-pharaoh-and-the-priest Pontification without all the gritty gravitas Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:07:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2006/04/02/all-the-thumbs-from-alexander-govatskis-the-pharaoh-and-the-priest#comment-634 Tozier Mon, 03 Apr 2006 10:28:42 +0000 http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2006/04/02/all-the-thumbs-from-alexander-govatskis-the-pharaoh-and-the-priest#comment-634 There you go. Thank you! There you go. Thank you!

]]> http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2006/04/02/all-the-thumbs-from-alexander-govatskis-the-pharaoh-and-the-priest#comment-629 Karen Lofstrom Mon, 03 Apr 2006 06:19:39 +0000 http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2006/04/02/all-the-thumbs-from-alexander-govatskis-the-pharaoh-and-the-priest#comment-629 Our hero was prone to enthusiasms. One enthusiasm led him into the Society of Jesus. He was posted to Syria, where he perfected his colloquial Arabic, then to a Roman Catholic college in Alexandria. There he fell prey to two new enthusiams: the peach-like bottoms of Arab boys, and the lure of ancient Egyptian archaeology. Following a scandal (suppressed) he left the Jesuits and opened an archaeological tour service catering to wealthy European homosexuals. His tours culminated in what he claimed to be reconstructed "ancient Egyptian funerary ceremonies" in excavated tombs. Authorities took a jaundiced view of his activities and shut down the tour service. He had saved a fair bit of money during the few years his business had flourished, sufficient to fund the rest of his life in a Cairo villa filled with looted Egyptian artifacts. Our hero was prone to enthusiasms. One enthusiasm led him into the Society of Jesus. He was posted to Syria, where he perfected his colloquial Arabic, then to a Roman Catholic college in Alexandria. There he fell prey to two new enthusiams: the peach-like bottoms of Arab boys, and the lure of ancient Egyptian archaeology. Following a scandal (suppressed) he left the Jesuits and opened an archaeological tour service catering to wealthy European homosexuals. His tours culminated in what he claimed to be reconstructed “ancient Egyptian funerary ceremonies” in excavated tombs. Authorities took a jaundiced view of his activities and shut down the tour service. He had saved a fair bit of money during the few years his business had flourished, sufficient to fund the rest of his life in a Cairo villa filled with looted Egyptian artifacts.

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