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Then Noferkephtah rose up within the tomb, and laughed, saying:

“O Satni, If thou art not afraid, play against me a game for the possession of this book - a game of fifty-two!”

Now there was a chess-board within the tomb. Then Satni played a game of chess with Noferkephtah, while the Kas, the Shadows, the Doubles of Ahouri, and the  large-eyed boy looked on. But the eyes with which they gazed upon him, and the eyes of Noferkephtah also, strangely disturbed him, so that Satni’s brain whirled, and the web of his thought became entangled, and he lost!

Noferkephtah laughed, and uttered a magical word, and placed the chess-board upon Satni’s head, and Satni sank to his knees into the floor of the tomb.

Seltsam an dieser Stelle aus Stray Leaves from Strange Literature: The Book of Toth mag vor allem die zweiundfünfzig anmuten.

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