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The Gods Are Athirst
Anatole France · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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A passe-lacet is a bodkin or threading tool; ficelle is string. With these tools Longuemare joins the toy limbs and gives them movement. The concrete technique matters to the figurative language of enlivening little beings: he has not carved a puppet or manipulated actors, but threaded articulated cardboard pieces.
Places to read
- Chapter XIV, paragraph 13Frenchde la ficelle et un passe-lacet: string and a bodkin. The supplied tools enable Longuemare’s successful contribution.