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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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If you’re a B5 fan, you recognize this.

It’s supposedly from an “Egyptian prayer.”

It (ultimately) came from a Harlan Ellison short story, IIRC.

My question: What is Ellison’s source, or did he just make it up for his story, and Straczynski (sp?) just thought it sounded good and used it?

That is, is it really from some Egyptian source?

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Damn, I coulda got the answer for you if I had read this last night. I will email my daughter and ask. Might take a day or two tho so if someone else knows, feel free to respond.

“Only when he no longer knows what he is doing, does the painter do good
things.” --Edgar Degas

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Here ya go. Staight from the source.

Harlan came up with that line himself, on request, it is not from one of his short stories, but he made it up. He is well-versed in Egyptian Lore among many other kinds of mythologies and histories.

“Only when he no longer knows what he is doing, does the painter do good
things.” --Edgar Degas

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PCW:

As the Texan says in that commercial, “Do-mo A-ri-ga-to.”