Something about that title just makes me smile every time -- like the author couldn't think of any pyramid- or sphinx-related words for the letters from V to Z but just decided to go ahead and publish it anyway. (Hey, Raymond Saltshaker, ever hear of a ziggurat?) Somehow, U is the perfect letter to leave off on, too; "A to X" or something wouldn't have been so funny.
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Zep Tepi is what the ancient Egyptians called the first time when the world arose from primeval chaos. The first thing that arose from the waters of chaos was a pyramid shaped mound. He could have worked that in somewhere!
I first missed the joke here, by assuming it was a real book. You seem to be like Tolkien in this - the products of your imagination are regarded as objective, and further reality
developed from that assumption!
Yes, I like to think of myself as a latter-day Tolkien, and the Middle Earth Legendarium as a sort of precursor to "Pyramids and Sphinxes from A to U"!
My dreams are often highly verbal -- sometimes they even take the form of "radio programs" rather than movies. I've dreamed up plenty of book titles, song lyrics, and even a dialect of English.
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