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Sunday, June 11, 2006 It's Piss Off France Day Bernard-Henri Levy, or "BHL" as even he calls himself, was attacked by two cream torts at the Paris Book Fair back in March. BHL put out a pompous book in January about his high-profile trip to America "in the footsteps of de Tocqueville." While he signed copies of it in Paris a man called Noel Godin threw a pie. "No sooner had Levy changed his clothes to resume the interrupted book signing than a second pie assault occurred," according to the pages of Spiegel, where I also got this photo. (I've been meaning to post this for months.) Goldin has creamed BHL now seven or eight times, because he considers the celebrity-philosophe "pompous." He's my new hero. Levy, for his part, has sworn never to go to the Paris Book Fair again.l posted by Michael Scott Moore | 5:42 PM
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This raises two questions for me. One, were the two pie-rs in cahoots? Two, if Goldin has done this to BHL several times now, why hasn't that made BHL, oh, look out for him when he goes out?
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n. Damage, injury, or a wrongful act done willfully ... [Middle English, injury, from Old French, from Medieval Latin tortum, from Latin, neuter past participle of torqu?re, to twist] Works in this case. Indri: I think Goldin hit BHL both times in Paris, God bless him. | |
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