I am in the library, browsing through The Literature of the Ancient Egyptian by Erman. First I reread "The Complaint of Khekheperre-Sonbu" (pages 108-110), a lament by a scribe about how hard it is to come up with new ideas, especially in a time of crisis. Nice to know that even the first scholars had trouble coming up with new ideas back when plenty of things were yet to be discovered. Now I am reading a bunch of essays of advice to schoolboys (pages 189-198). They all advise the kids to stay away from manual labor and become scribes or officials because office and administrative jobs are sweet.
All of this has happened before and will happen again.
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