Friday, March 11, 2005
Lame history revision - Sartre sans cigarette
Hutch says: "Hell is other people removing your cigarette. France's National Library has airbrushed Jean-Paul Sartre's trademark cigarette out of a poster of the chain-smoking philosopher to avoid prosecution under an anti-tobacco law." Link
UPDATE: Russ Kick says:
"Cigarette removal has also been done to the Beatles, Courtney Love,
Robert Johnson, Jackson Pollock, James Dean, and Paul Simon.
"While I'm not saddened that there are fewer public places where I have to inhale second-hand cancer, this revisionism is ridiculous. If this keeps up, it may appear as though no one in history ever smoked!"
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