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100	1		_aMacaulay, David.
245	1	0	_aMotel of the mysteries.
260			_aBoston : _bHoughton Mifflin, _c1979.
300			_a95 p. : ill _c29 cm.
520			_aIt is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985. Imagine, then, the excitement that Howard Carson, an amateur archeologist at best, experienced when in crossing the perimeter of an abandoned excavation site he felt the ground give way beneath him and found himself at the bottom of a shaft, which, judging from the DO NOT DISTURB sign hanging from an archaic doorknob, was clearly the entrance to a still-sealed burial chamber. Carson's incredible discoveries, including the remains of two bodies, one of then on a ceremonial bed facing an altar that appeared to be a means of communicating with the Gods and the other lying in a
521			_a porcelain sarcophagus in the Inner Chamber, permitted him to piece together the whole fabric of that
600	1	7	_a extraordinary civilization.
650		7	_aCivilization, Modern--1950---Humor. _2sears
650		7	_aNorth America--Antiquities--Humor. _zsears
651		7	_xsears
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