"Oh," Matt says again, and shakes his head, "no, no, you can totally look at it-- it's sort of related to what I was talking about to you before, the self-powering spells, only I have no idea why I thought Sumerian religious poetry was germane. I'm trying to remember."

He slides the notebook Andrew's way: The open page does, in fact, feature a few lines of poetry (with translation, which reveals it to be about the goddess Inanna).