Nefertiti

“Nefertiti is like Athena born from the brow of Zeus, a head-heavy armored goddess. She is beautiful but desexed.”

“The Nefertiti bust is one of the most popular art works in the world. It is printed on scarves and molded in necklace pendants and coffee-table miniatures. But never in my experience is the bust exactly reproduced. The copyist softens it, feminizes it and humanizes it. The actual bust is intolerably severe. It is too uncanny an object for domestic display. Even art books lie. The bust is usually posed in profile or at an angle, so that the missing left pupil is hidden or shadowed. What happened to the eye?”

“A NAME IN THE MOUTHS OF MEN BUILDS IN THE MOST INVULNERABLE HEART OF THE PYRAMIDS.”

“THE IMPOSSIBLE IS THE ONLY WORTHY OPPONENT OF MAN.”

“SPEECH AND WRITING ARE MORE SOLID THAN A STELE. A NAME IN THE MOUTHS OF MEN BUILDS IN THE MOST INVULNERABLE HEART OF THE PYRAMIDS.”

“You can’t change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it’s an oasis won’t make it so, Mutnodjmet.”

“Be careful here, my lady. Let history forget your name. For if your deeds are to live in eternity, you will have to become exactly what your family wants you to be.” “And what is that?” I demanded. “A slave to the throne.”

“I heard Nakhtmin’s voice in my mind, that to be forgotten was the greatest gift that history could give”

“Because he is weak and shallow, and you should learn to recognize men who are afraid of others with power, Mutnodjmet.”

“My love is unique an none can rival her. Just by passing, she has already stolen away my heart”

“Nothing is forever...nothing lasts”

“You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so...”

“I wonder if our names determine our destiny, or if destiny leads us to choose certain names.”