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- adjective In a style reminiscent of Jean Cocteau (1889–1963),
French writer ,artist , anddramatist .
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Perhaps nothing encapsulates his curiously Cocteauesque—and possibly Prioryesque—thinking as this statement of his from 1955: “I believe that the task of the next century, in the face of the most terrible threat mankind has ever known, will be to reintegrate the gods.”
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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Perhaps nothing encapsulates his curiously Cocteauesque—and possibly Prioryesque—thinking as this statement of his from 1955: “I believe that the task of the next century, in the face of the most terrible threat mankind has ever known, will be to reintegrate the gods.”
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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Perhaps nothing encapsulates his curiously Cocteauesque—and possibly Prioryesque—thinking as this statement of his from 1955: “I believe that the task of the next century, in the face of the most terrible threat mankind has ever known, will be to reintegrate the gods.”
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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