Lonelygirl15

[exastra]

in the "Don't Forget" section of the hsa site, it says: Next week's topic: In preparing for a discourse on the AEgypt series, discuss the importance of the theme: appearances vs. reality.:

there is a book titled Aegypt... written by a John Crowley.

summary- Reengaging the motifs of alternate lives, worlds and world-views that pulsed through his remarkable "Little, Big", Crowley's new novel shapes itself around unorthodox historian Pierce Moffett, who seeks to explain the secret histories of the world, the old notions of science, religion and philosophy that have survived in astrology, myths and superstition; not the real, geographical Egypt, but AEgypt, the cognate country of the imagination from which the gypsies came. In resonating stories nested one inside the other, Crowley describes Blackbury Jambs, Pa., where among ex-students turned shepherds and mystics turned babysitters, Pierce finally finds himself part of a community and rediscovers the source of his quest, the historical novels of local writer Fellowes Kraft (a fictional historical novelist)...

http://www.strangehorizons.com/2002/20020325/aegypt.shtml