Talk:Notre-Dame Affair

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[edit] 2006 reprise?

I removed the following from the article, and bring it here for discussion:

On February 17, 2006, a man using the name Bruno Mourre-Berna ascended to the altar, and in front of some hundred tourists assembled for a guided tour of the cathedral, pronounced, in English, an adaptation of the famous Lettrist anti-sermon, this time targeting not “the Universal Catholic Church”, but rather “the Global Tourism Industry”: “Today…we declare the death of Culture, so the tourists may live at last!” A few days later, postcards bearing a picture of the action and the text of the sermon appeared for sale at the souvenir kiosk in the church, and in tourist stands throughout the Ile de la Cité. They bore the title: “Scadale (bis) à Notre-Dame” (Notre-Dame Scandal Two), and on the back the trademark “Retrolettrist Editions”. It goes without saying that this action had no perceptible impact either in the press or in the cafés; a fact which perhaps only confirms the retro-lettrist text’s main claim: that “Culture is dead!”

These words were spoken at the 2006 reprise of the action:

Today, Bruno Day in the Year of our Boredom, Here, at the flagship attraction of Notre-Dame of Paris, I accuse the global tourism industry of the lethal diversion of our living strength towards an empty heaven. I accuse the tourism industry of pimping. I accuse the tourism industry of infecting culture with its corporate romanticism, of being the viral fungus on the cryogenetically frozen body of culture. For verily I say unto you: culture is dead! We vomit out the agonizing insipidity of your tours, for your tours have been the greasy smile hiding the date rape of all our resource wars. Step out, therefore, onto the banal and exhilarating asphalt of a world where culture is dead, and walk the world anew with your quick feet, with your bare feet, with your unguided feet. Today, Bruno Day in the Year of our Boredom, we proclaim the death of culture so the tourists may live at last! LA CULTURE EST MORTE! VIVE LES TOURISTES!

This is unreferenced, its notability is questionable, and it is not relevant to the article, which discusses an historical event which, though not widely known, is certainly important in the history of this movement. This latter event can make no such claim. ---RepublicanJacobite_{The'FortyFive'} 22:44, 27 March 2008 (UTC)