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Author’s hedge: Now, friends, the following work, while incorporating much history and Memphis mythology into its olio, is, as they say, a work of fiction. If there are names of actual people herein, those people are not to be held responsible for the author’s prevarications, and the use of their names was done with necromancy and love. So, all is not what it seems and all that seems to not be what it seems may be what it seems. In short, the author is a confused and deeply troubled person. Nevertheless, this is a jape. Nevertheless, this is fiction fiction fiction.
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Introduction by Camel Jeremy Eros