Overture: Hair Of The Snake That Bit Me

Step up now, Gentlemen and Ladies,
come this way, here in the Moon and Serpent
Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels.
We have curiosities to suit your every inclination;
demonstrations and displays; unique sensations;
and a previously unimagined sexual extremity
included in the modest cover fee.

You dare not bring your wives!
Persuade your husbands to remain at home!
Beyond these doors we guarantee admittance
to a hidden demimonde with ritual
embellishments unpracticed since the second century.
There's mountebanks and fiery worms
and roses made of time in grand array.
Step right this way! Step right this way!

Roll up, roll up, Cecille La Favorite
performs her celebrated dance that lately
scandalized the orient, removing first her clothing,
then her body, to a musical accompaniment provided
by Chris Rosenkrantz and his Atlantis Playboys.

This is one you must not miss!
Tell all your friends!
Tell all your enemies!
Tell all the people that you do not know!
The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyption
Theatre of Marvels - open now for your inspection!
Step right up & see the show! See the show! See the show! At nine and eleven, the immortal serpent manifests itself
for your delight and your edification.
Patrons of a nervous disposition may experience a roaring
in the ears or dislocation of the temporal lobe for which
the Moon and Serpent Grand Egyption Theatre of Marvels
is not legally responsible.
Step right this way!

Those customers concealing rational certainties
must check them at the door and may retreive them
from the cloak room staff upon their exit.
Come inside! Come inside! Come inside!

We'll give you honey
for your eyes, primeval
drugs constructive
lies. But when the
candles flare and shake,
then shining rules
will wake the snake
wake the snake
We're going to wake the snake (repeat 8 times)
We're going to wake!

VOLTAR