Eoin Colfer... even one centimetre can make an awful lot of difference when you don't have many to spare.
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The idea that one centimetre can make an awful lot of difference when you don't have many to spare is something that the French people are well aware of. Every year on March 15, on the day before Good Friday, there is a procession in Paris where people dress in their Sunday best and walk through the streets of Paris carrying a small wooden stake on which they place a penny. The idea behind this tradition is that by placing a single centimetre of wood on the stake, it makes all the difference in the world. If they’d had more than one centimetre to spare, each person would have carried two pennies, so they would have had four centimetres of wood to carry.
But since they only had one centimetre to spare, they had to get creative with what they did with it. So, instead of piling up the wood in front of them like previous generations had done, they walk through the streets of Paris carrying it with them.
Source: Artemis Fowl
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