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le Jeu du Prochain Train

term

the A.F.R. Root Cult game of jumping before oncoming trains (n.304) — Les Assassins' "confinement to their epithetic wheelchairs" is, in the note's own words, "largely conceded" to trace to it; the cult itself is "Le Culte du Prochain Train" in main text (p. 732), though n.304's cribbed encyclopedia passage prints "La Culte" (kept as printed); the game is le Jeu, the cult le Culte