re: #403 abolitionist
Ancient Egyptians spoiled them. /
When I was a college freshman, the woman up the hall had a sort of African-heritage theme going in her room, with textiles and drums and Egyptian bronzes.
Another woman had a cat, who had free run of the hall.
When the cat found the African theme room, she naturally assumed it was a temple. For her. She would be found planted in the middle of the kente-print bedspread, in the same pose as the statue of Bast on the shelf above her.