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The Gods Are Athirst
Anatole France · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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Phrase.
Combalot says everything will be regulated by distilled water while complaining about new monetary units. The edition connects the phrase to the metric definition of mass through water, but he is blending distinct reforms in an alarmed everyday account. The utterance should not be promoted into an exact technical description of decimal currency.
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- Chapter XVI, paragraph 17Frenchtout sera réglé sur l’eau distillée: everything will be based on distilled water. The cobbler telescopes metrology and monetary change.