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 hiddеn demimonde with ritual embеllishments 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 Rosencrantz 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 Egyptian Theatre of Marvels, open now for your inspection! Step right up and see the show! See the show! See the show!

At nine and at 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 Egyptian Theatre of Marvels is not legally responsible. Step right this way! Those customers concealing rational certainties must check them at the door and may retrieve them from the cloakroom 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. Wake the snake. We're going to wake the snake! We're going to wake the snake! We're going to wake the snake! We're going to wake the snake! We're going to wake the snake! We're going to wake the snake! We're going to wake the snake! We're going to wake the snake! We're going to wake!