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Parody "While the War Party spits out tired insults about Gallic Weakness, Paris sems to us a wise ally, trying to prevent an old friend from acting against her deeper interests." —Editorial in...
...Many of his disciples left him as a result of his habit of screaming, "Get off that divan...
...Is it a neocon tree...
...I would approach Patrique and we would discuss philosophy: "If a tree falls in the forest, does it make a noise...
...he would reply elliptically...
...Still, his journal, La Pitchforque, was an unbending champion of the peasant class, calling for high tariffs on aperitifs and croissants...
...During his later days, of course, Patrique fell under the spell of Lacan and, because of a typo in one of Lacan's later works, came to believe that when human beings died they were reincarnated as parlor furniture...
...Can't you see you're hurting her...
...Editorial in the American Conservative, a magazine edited by Patrick J. Buchanan The Paris Years by Simone de Simon Perhaps the happiest days of my life were spent on the Left Bank, studying with the great French intellectuals Jean-Paul Sartre and Patrique Le Buchanan...
...They were an odd pair, the wall-eyed Sartre and the flamboyant Patrique...
...In those days—for this was after his riding crop period—he favored ruffled purple blouses and a flowing velour cape with a vivid red lining stained with sherry...
...Sometimes Patrique would take us down to the waterfront to establish solidarity with the workers, though most nights they would just beat him up and steal his scooter...
...Sartre liked to discuss his days in the Resistance, of which there were two, while this would send Patrique into a rage, for he of course still wept at the sight of tall leather boots...
...But I still liked to visit him occasionally, and bring him news of the defeats and humiliations of the American hyperpower in an effort to cheer him up...
...I used to see Patrique late at night at the legendary cafe Pas de Juifs, smoking Gitanes and reading Nietzsche...
...It was also quick to embrace surrealism, and featured nightmarish visions of a dystopian alternate universe, called ^ " MSNBC, which deadened readers' senses and caused them to doubt the existence of God...
...Patrique then would complain of a feeling of nausea, incited by the hopelessness of existence and the futility of will, though later in life he discovered that Pepto-Bismol cleared this right up...
Vol. 8 • February 2003 • No. 21
