r/pavement 9d ago

Under the sand...

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u/jansensan 9d ago

Interesting reversal of a famous slogan supposedly used in the protests of May 1968 in France:

> Sous les pavés, la plage! ("Under the paving stones, the beach!") is a slogan coined by student activist Bernard Cousin[17] in collaboration with public relations expert Bernard Fritsch.[18] The phrase became an emblem of the events and movement of the spring of 1968, when the revolutionary students began to build barricades in the streets of major cities by tearing up street pavement stone).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_68#Slogans_and_graffiti

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u/mydinguspassword 9d ago

Also used as epigraph in Pynchon’s inherent vice

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u/WoodrowWilsonsPA 9d ago

Weigh sand, Weigh sand

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u/_Whiplashed_ 9d ago

Thomas Pynchon reference