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There were times when a person was so outraged at the stupidity of another that he could not prevent himself from writing a hostile, abusive, or sarcastic letter At least two such letters exist One of them appears to have been a real letter written by a senior bureaucrat to an inept subordinate, a man who had bningled his duties in organizing shipping for an Egyptian temple The other is a purely literary composition, written in the form of a letter Here one scribe lambastes a colleague for his pretensions to the special knowledge required of an Egyptian envoy and attempts to show that his colleague could never survive one day outside of Egypt on a real diplomatic mission The letter is extremely sarcastic and employs all sorts of rare words and expressions, many based on Semitic languages that an Egyptian...
This section contains 613 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) |
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