[Ansteorra] Ancient Roman Transvestite

[Zenobia Mira Vallis]

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Was the Games article written by David Macaulay?  He has a hilarious book out - "Motel of the Mysteries" - that is not to be missed.  I clipped this reader review from the Barnes & Noble site:

  MacAulay spoofs Howard Carter's excavation of Tutankhamen's tomb
  Spoiler: Our civilization (c. 1985) has been long-destroyed. Inside the motel are dead bodies. A thousand years later, archeologists are completely clueless as to how our society worked. MacAulay, as always, tells the story in wonderful drawings. This is his comic book, not a 'How Things Work'. However, as you might expect, the baffled archeologists ascribe every common object a mystical and ritual purpose. Which includes more than a little 'How we think things must have worked', and that will have you rolling on the floor. It helps if you spend a few minutes with a search engine looking for 'Howard Carter' and 'Tutankhamen' and reading some of the more likely-looking hits. MacAulay takes all this and drags it foward in time and dresses it up a little. While we may be pretty sure that a pile of rocks several hundred feet high over a dead body from 3000 BC is a tomb and not, say, some unlucky clerk who got sealed in the local bank vault by mistake, it's a bit of a stretch with a contemporary motel. Here, MacAulay is working more along the lines of Firesign Theater's 'I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus'. In that, contemporary scientists in the Tomorrowland spoof give clueless 'scientific' explanations of reality after putting down equally silly creation stores. If nothing else, reading up on the actual opening of Tutankhamen's tomb will provide a clue to the pathetic motel -- er, magnificent tomb -- that is discoverd in 'Motel of the Mysteries': 'Toot 'n' C'mon'

In peace,
 Zenobia


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  From: Jane Sitton
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  Thank you for the info!  I knew if anyone else had
  seen this, it would be a SCAdian.  Now I know where to
  look for the rest of the story.

  Madelina de Lindesaya

  --- Theron Bretz <tbretz at montroseclinic.org> wrote:
  > > I am reminded of a satirical article in Games
  > magazine
  > > from back in the 80's, where archaeologists of the
  > > future do just that when discovering a motel.
  > MOVIEA
  > > and MOVIEB, they decide, were the gods, and the
  > t.v.
  > > set was the shrine.<snip>
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