The merry adventures of Dominique Strauss-Kahn: a retrospective.
The whole affair is eerily reminiscent of Tom Wolfe’s classic novel, Bonfire of the Vanities, where again, a man of finance and some heft, is brought low by an ill wind from the Bronx….
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Whatever your opinion of this tarnished kettle, it turns out the pot has even darker such blotches of its own.
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C'est l'Ordre du Temple qui est derrière cette histoire...Préparez-vous à acheter le prochain Dan Brown.
[I.e., the Knights Templar -- a front group for the Illuminati, who in turn are but a pawn of… (NDLR).]
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La reine Néfertiti vient d’accuser DSK (Dominicus Straussus Kahnus, à l’époque) de tentative de viol.
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In the case of l’affaire DSK -- pour faire durer le feuilleton de l'été, as one French reader put it -- new nymphettes crawl out of the woodwork with sordid or titillating tales dredged up from years past, and the media goes for it. If the narrative runs out, go for the meta-narrative.
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So greatly are brains befuddled, when confronting the politics of sex, that I almost despair of getting the point across. So let us remove to an analogy.
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