Paul Gauguin Spirit of the Dead Watching

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the history of the kingdom, man!'
'Yes. My memory.'
The king relaxed a little. Sheer horrified fascination was unravelling the knot of fury.
'How old are you?' he said.
'I think... seven thousand years. But sometimes it seems much longer.'
'Really seven thousand years?'
'Yes,' said Dios.
'How could any-re-ptah, pushing forward.
'You will destroy the kingdom,' said Dios. 'I cannot allow it.'
'You cannot allow it?'
'Yes. What will we be without the pyramids?' said Dios.
'Speaking for the dead,' said Far-re-ptah, 'we will be free.'
'But the kingdom will be just another small country,' said Dios, and to their horror the ancestors saw tears in his eyes. man stand it?' said the king. Dios shrugged. 'Seven thousand years is just one day at a time,' he said. Slowly, with the occasional wince, he got down on one knee and held up his staff in shaking hands. 'O kings,' he said, 'I have always existed only to serve.' There was a long, extremely embarrassed pause. 'We will destroy the pyramids,' said Far