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The Art Of The Moving Picture

CHAPTER XIX
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The Ani manuscript has so fascinated some of the Egyptologists that it is copied in figures fifteen feet high on the walls of two of the rooms of the British Museum.

And you can read the story eloquently told in Maspero.
Ani knocks at many doors in the underworld.

Monstrous gatekeepers are squatting on their haunches with huge knives to slice him if he cannot remember their names or give the right password, or by spells the priests have taught him, convince the sentinels that he is Osiris himself.

To further the illusion the name of Osiris is inscribed on his breast.

While he is passing these perils his little wife is looking on by a sort of clairvoyant sympathy, though she is still alive.


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