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Referenced when discussing D'Annunzio's use of the word 'holocaust' - Lucy explains he was 'taking it from his reading of Flaubert's Salambo in which there is a holocaust a human sacrifice and a holocaust is a kind of sacrifice in which the sacrificial victim is entirely consumed.'

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Referenced during discussion of child sacrifice and Moloch. Tom asks if Dominic has read this novel, which contains a scene depicting child sacrifice in Carthage during a war with mercenaries after the first Punic War.