Starlitz was scandalized. "Christ, you don’t know anything about machinery. The way you talk about it, you’d think technology was for what people need !" He took a deep breath. "Look, Jude, trust me on this. This fucker is voodoo. It’s a canopic jar, it’s the Pharaoh’s guts! It’s the Holy Tabernacle, okay? We steal this baby, and the whole goddamn karmic keystone falls out of this place ..."