Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

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Prtzathalavr

 

18 The Arch-preposterous

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“Gold is no other than the metal we call ‘Prtzathalavr,’ the specific weight of which, reckoning from the element of the sacred Theomertmalogos, is 1439; that is to say, its element is three and a fraction times less vivifying than the element of the metal red copper.