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From Christopher Gray's Leaving the 20th Century
"Just before the High Mass [Easter, 1950], a small group of Lettrists, including one who had previously intended to be ordained, slipped unobserved into the back of the cathedral. In a side room they caught, gagged, stripped and bound one of the priests. The ex-catholic Lettrist put on the priest's vestments and, just before the service was about to begin, ascended the steps to the main pulpit. A moment's respectful silence. "Brothers, God is dead," he said; and began benignly to discuss the implications of this conclusion. Several minutes passed before the congregation actually registered what was happening. He managed to escape out of the back of the cathedral but the congregation caught up with him on the quais where they proceeded to try to lynch him. The Lettrist, alas, was forced to surrender to the police in order to save his neck."

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