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Blind man’s buff

colin-maillard

The game played after supper in the inn yard, in which a blindfolded player seeks the others.

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The Gods Are Athirst

Anatole France · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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Meaning

Lemma.

The game played after supper in the inn yard, in which a blindfolded player seeks the others. The young people’s liveliness is sufficiently explained by their age, says the narrator, without needing an explanation from political violence and uncertainty. The qualification resists turning every pleasure into a symptom of Terror.

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  1. Chapter X, paragraph 61Frenchune partie de colin-maillard: A game of blind man’s buff. The narrator explicitly checks an over-political interpretation of their ardour.