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    By Patrice Martinez and Phanès

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    There are villains in  the social classes, and it's the same in the spheres of Divinities.                         Within a big farm of the city of Lesbos, Cléomédon guides us through its surprising fate...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBadPress
    Release dateJun 28, 2017
    ISBN9781547506828
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      FOR A CUBIT MORE - Patrice Martinez

      Patrice Martinez

      POUR UNE COUDEE DE PLUS

      *FOR A CUBIT MORE*

      Phanès-éditions

      ISBN : 979-10-91877-15-2-

      Illustration : Rosa Bonheur - Le laborage – 1844 -

      Intellectual Property © January 2016 Second edition of Phanès-éditions

      Martinez Patrice

      01, Allée des Monts d'Olmes 31770 Colomiers (France)

      If Aeolus had held back his days of anger, today was reserved for it: a wind from Septentrion (the north) brought forth cold prayers. The trees trembled from the foliage up to the basis. The forest adjoined the fields of barley and millet, and the undergrowth bent over the power of elements; the Dryads and the Hamadryads escaped towards the heart of humming trunks...

      Since my gynoecium¹, I had no other memory of when it felt so cold and windy, than on this day of the second decade of the month of Scirophorion. The crowing cock had not yet announced itself, and already we were in full labour, mowing as fast as possible the harvest of barley of the half-year. Now that many years had passed by, I approached pace by pace the domain of Hades, and this narrative which I am going to tell you there, I had kept warm in the hearth of my

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