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The Gods Are Athirst
Anatole France · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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Lemma.
Pâture is food or fodder. Brotteaux uses it to describe beings becoming food for other beings, themselves destined to the same end. The image undercuts the idea that nature by itself grants human life privileged value; the preceding semble marks an appearance or proposed inference, and his later recoil from blood complicates its practical implications.
Places to read
- Chapter VI, paragraph 20Frenchla pâture d’autres êtres: Food for other beings. Brotteaux’s account of natural consumption includes the consumers in the same cycle.