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Adrift In Daydreams Upon the Banks of the Nile

an average of 2,830 cubic meters per second of rich silt forms an alluvial plain spreads outward in a fan shape from sedimentary deposit whereby ancient Egyptian civilizations got built adorning arid topography invaluable like aorta pumping blood at the nape of the neck, yet analogous context engendered engineering feats without guilt whereby artisans, craftsmen, early geographers illustrated in frieze and drape frozen timeless statuary exhibiting phenomenal abilities to the hilt associated from mainspring within fertile crescent swollen like a plump grape which longest river often overflows banks whereby coveted materiel gets spilt feeding the rift valley and allowing, enabling and providing peoples to dominate flooding the history of mankind with accomplishments that marvel even today epitomized by innovations - alphabets, wheelwrights, pyramids, etc lives did create baffling historians how each mortise and tenon snug as a bug in a rug mortise and tenon block construed edifices persons did intricately lay perfect with near geometric exactitude ranks as wonder of webbed wide world great faint hints of daily trials and tribulations recorded for posterity in clay or shards of broken pottery pieced togethe coupling revelations a mosaic plate which functional artifacts provided dietary staples to pagan spirits populace did pray.

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