I was watching "Carl Sagan Cosmos" recently and the 11th episode of the series entitled "the persistence of Memory" talks about how books made humans the first species to be able to store information outside their bodies. this made me think that "guelah papyrus"(specifically the refrain section) told the story of how we collected knowledge over the centuries. "aboard a craft bereft of oar I rowed upstream to find Lenore. Abducted by a bandit or. A king from some forgotten war" We are lost in life and have to find our way with out any help (aboard a craft bereft of oar). and then through researching history and learning the past we paddle upstream. then the refrain "This is the work of the guelah papyrus" paper is papyrus so because of paper we have history. "Stranded for a moment on the ocean of Osyrus" Osyrus is the god of death so we are lost in a see of the knowledge of our past ancestors and of course we all die.
"Absorbing all she can for every member of her clan" trying to learn as much as possible to benifit all man kind from paper and the past
"Expanding exponentially like some recursive virus" our knowledge is ever growing and at a faster and faster rate. And last "maybe i could be a fly and feed arachnid as I die" we have almost no significance in the cosmic universe about as much as a fly and very little significance compared to preserving our species as a whole so why not just be a fly and feed a spider. when you study history and the natural world. this is the conclusion we come to. that's my take

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