& thurs., 14 july, 2016: it’s it’s it’s it’s it’s bastille day: give us This Day our Daily Curse

FRENCH: “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité”  §

FRENCH: “T. F. P. / Travail, Famille, Patrie”  §§

FRENCH: “Après moi le déluge...”   §§§

FRENCH: “T. F. P. / Travaux forcés à perpetuité”  §§§§

FRENCH: “Révolution c’est l’ opium des intellectuelles...”  §§§§§

§)   “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”  —  French Nat’l motto, dating fr. the French Revolution ;  

§§)   “Work, Family, Fatherland”  —  Nat’l motto of the Vichy Regime, the fuck-puppet govt. of the Nazi occupation ;

§§§)   “After me, the deluge...”  —  King Louis XV ;

  §§§§)   “Forced labor in perpetuity”  —  i.e. & e.g., “life sentence without parole,” fr. the French penal code ;

§§§§§)   “Revolution is the opium of the intellectuals...”  —  Popular Post-May ’68 Situationist graffito that sprayed its way across European & US campuses, found its way into Lindsay Anderson’s O LUCKY MAN!

 

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