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Endnotes explained
This chapter contains endnotes referencing biblical passages and a French wordplay.
What happens
This chapter contains endnotes referencing biblical passages and a French wordplay.
Key passages
“He who sleeps must die.”
Sleep is a metaphor for death.
Biblical allusion to mortality.
“A play upon the French words, mari and âne.”
A pun on the French words for husband and donkey.
Linguistic wordplay.