He told no one. At night, the town sometimes heard a far-off keening that people blamed on the night train or the coyotes. Horace told himself it was the quarry settling.
The core of Butler’s argument, detailed extensively in the PDF that would later circulate globally, is that the "Egypt" of the Bible is not the Egypt of North Africa. Instead, Butler posits that the true "Egypt" (Mizraim) was located in South America.