[lbo-talk] RE: talk about getting your finger on the pulse of the country

[Carl Remick]

>From: lbo at inkworkswell.com
>
>"Be a scribe! Your body will be sleek, your hand
>will be soft. You are  one who sits grandly in your
>house; your servants answer speedily; beer is poured
>copiously; all who see you rejoice in good cheer.
>Happy is  the heart of him who writes; he is young
>each day."
>
>                  --Ptahhotep, Vizier to Isesi,
>                    Fifth Egyptian Dynasty, 2300 BC

Hmm, I suspect beer was poured copiously into Ptahhotep because this is 
definitely a beer-goggles view of the scribe's life, surely as unenviable 
four millennia ago as today.

Carl