Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 19:27:52 -0500 (EST)
From: danceswithcarp <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: Daily All-Caught-Up: 4/4 DOROTHEA DIX 





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listen, you will
hear the deafening song of the stars
a silence brilliant and ringing as ice
a lovesong, it seems, made out of no love
and no song,
and the earth here to hear it.

* Tobey Hiller, "Night"

APRIL 4

DOROTHEA DIX
Advocate of humane treatment for so-called "mentally ill."

Ancient Rome: FESTIVAL OF THE MAGNA OF PHRYGIA,
a reliquary embodied in a small meteorite. An ecstatic
procession with the magna mater in a chariot drawn by lions,
castrated priests leaping & dancing & gashing themselves to a
din of Flutes, cymbals & drums.


1581 - Queen Elizabeth dines on board the "Pelican," the ship
in which Sir Francis Drake circumnavigate the World, &, after
dinner, Knighted him.

1774 - Asked on his deathbed if his mind is at ease Oliver
Goldsmith, 45, replies: "No it is not." The poet, novelist,
playwright, & member of Samuel Johnson's circle is regarded by
friends, somewhat erroneously, as an oaf. Says Dr. Johnson:
"No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or
more wise when he had."

1802 - Dorothea Dix lives, Hampden, Maine.

We All Are Born Mad. Some Remain So.
http://www.bookwire.com/BBR/Life-and-Letters/read.Review$32

1841 - Live like him?: After serving only one month, William
Henry Harrison sets sterling example -- became the first US
president to die in office.

1846 - Lautreamont lives, Montevideo. In French, see Raoul
Vaneigem's "Isidore Ducasse et le Comte de Lautréamont dans
les Poésies," http://www.nothingness.org/SI/RV/ducasse.html

1870 - Golden Gate Park established by City Order #800.

1871 - France: Tentative establishment of Commune in Limoges;
meanwhile the army attacks the Commune of Marseilles.

1877 - First home telephone installed.

1892 - Jules Thomas (1839-1892) dies. A French Icarien,
Parisian Communard, Blanquist. A Communard who fled to NY with
the defeat of the Paris Commune, founder of the "Société des
réfugiés de la Commune." Jules Thomas then became an anarchist
following his reading of Peter Kropotkin. See *Daily Bleed*
Gallery page,
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/JulesThomas.htm

1892 - Edith S=F6dergran (1892 - 1923) lives. Pioneer of poetry
in Swedish language in Finland, died of lung disease.
S=F6dergran had a significant impact on Nordic poetry,
especially 1920s Finnish modernism. Comparable as a modernizer
of poetry only to Katri Vala, Edith S=F6dergran became one of
the most loved Nordic writers.
"Jag l=E4ngtar till landet som icke =E4r,
ty allting som =E4r, =E4r jag tr=F6tt att beg=E4ra."
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/sodergra.htm

1894 - France: In Paris during the trial of Emile Henry, a
bomb explodes at the Foyot restaurant. The libertarian writer
Laurent Tailhade, who was there by chance, lost an eye in the
explosion. The anarchist Louis Matha was suspected of being
the author of the attack, but no proof could be found against
him.

1896 - Playwright Robert E. Sherwood (*The Petrified Forest;
Abe Lincoln in Illinois*) lives, New Rochelle, New York.

1896 - Tristan Tzara, French poet/essayist known mainly as the
founder of Dada, lives, Moinesti, Romania.
http://www.peak.org/~dadaist/English/Graphics/tzara.html European
Dada Archive
http:www.concentric.net/~darkfox/main.html Cabaret Discordia
--, 1963 http:// www.mital-u.ch/Dada/dadatt_e.html dada zurich,
chronicle by Tristan Tzara
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/ International Dada Archive, U. Of
Iowa
http://www.concentric.net/~darkfox/dadaintro.html Cabaret
Discordia
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rmutt/dictionary/

1900 - Prince of Wales, escapes anarchist assassination
attempt in Belgium.

1905 - Earthquake in Kangra India, kills 370,000.

1913 - Edward Dowden dies in Dublin, Ireland. Shakespeare
critic, Shelley scholar, Whitman discoverer & friend.

1914 - Marguerite Duras lives (1914-1996), Gia Dinh, Indochina
(Vietnam). French novelist, representative of *nouveau roman*,
screenwriter, scenarist, playwright, & film director,
internationally known for her screenplays of *Hiroshima Mon
Amour*, directed by Alain Resnais (1959) & *India Song*. She
was also member of the French Resistance during German
occupation. Other titles include *The Sea Wall; The Ravishing
of Lol Stein ; Destroy, She Said*.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/duras.htm

1914 - Unemployed riot in Union Square, NYC.

1915 - Blues guitarist Muddy Waters lives.

1928 - Maya Angelou lives, St. Louis, Missouri. African-
American poet whose autobiographical work explores economic,
racial, & sexual oppression themes. Her first work, *I Know
Why the Caged Bird Sings* (1970), is followed by *Gather
Together in My Name* (1974), *The Heart of a Woman* (1981), &
*All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes* (1986).
http://clubs.arizona.edu/~amun/unpoem.html

1933 - US dirigible Akron II crashes, killing 73 at the New
Jersey coast, near where, four years later, the Hindenburg
would explode & kill 36.

1955 - Australia & UK agree to establish nuclear testing
ground, Maralinga, South Australia.

1957 - The original Internet Literary Calendar creator (1995),
Timothy Ervin, lives, with little fanfare.
http://litcal.yasuda-u.ac.jp/LitCalendar.shtml
http://litcal.yasuda-u.ac.jp/pteindex.html

1958 - England: 4,000 begin first of what would become eleven
consecutive annual Easter protest marches from London to
Aldermaston AWRE spy base in England. The march arrived three
days later.

1964 - Billboard reports "just about everyone is tired of
Beatles. Disc jockeys are tired of playing the hit group, the
writers of trade & consumer publications are tired of writing
about them & the manufacturers of products other than Beatles
records are tired of hearing about them. Everyone's tired of
the Beatles -- except the listening & buying public."

1967 - Martin Luther King, Jr., preaches against Vietnam War
& calls for common cause between civil rights & anti-war
movements, Riverside Church, New York City.
http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/vietnam.html

1967 - US: Future Congressman Ron Dellums elected to Berkeley
City Council. In the same election, Jerry Rubin receives 22%
of vote for mayor of Berkeley.

1968 - Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., 39, shot & killed in
Memphis while visiting city in support of striking sanitation
workers during Poor People's Campaign.

Exactly a year ago, addressing a huge anti-war rally at the
United Nations Plaza in New York City, King proposed merging
the civil-rights & anti-war movements. He called the U.S.
government (quote):

"The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today."

This radical condemnation of U.S. foreign policy earned King
the disfavor of many civil-rights moderates & the government.
After today's assassination, African Americans will revolt in
more than a hundred U.S. cities. The government will deploy
75,000 National Guard troops. When the smoke clears, 39 people
will be dead & 2,500 injured.

Rioting began within two hours of King's death, in 29 states,
& lasted until April 4-11. Some of the cities to see uprisings
are Chicago, Baltimore, Washington DC, Cincinnati, Boston,
Detroit, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Toledo, Pittsburgh &
Seattle. Presumably assassinated by James Earl Ray who
confessed to the slaying & sentenced to 99 years in prison,
but then recanted. Numerous people originally involved in
investigating him have raised serious doubts about his guilt.

Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Johnson
designates Sunday, April 6, as a national day of mourning.
http://www.triadntr.net/~rdavis/mlkbirm.htm

1969 - First totally artificial heart of dacron & plastic
implanted in a human.

1969 - US: CBS-TV touches off censorship controversy by its
cancellation of the irreverent & anti-war "The Smothers
Brothers Comedy Hour."

1969 - US: April 4-6, demonstrations on the anniversary of
Martin Luther King's death & anti-war protests: Chicago;
Memphis, 10,000 gather to pay tribute; NY, 20,000  up Fifth
Ave, some with "33,000" armbands (explain? Also, is this the
Bryant Park demo?)

1971 - Marine clay under houses liquefies, 31 die,
St-Jean-Vianney Quebec.

1975 - "Operation Babylift" began as a Lockheed C-5A transport
left Saigon's Ton Son Nhut Airport carrying the first of 2,000
South Vietnamese orphans to a new life in America. Minutes
after takeoff, the plane crashes in a rice paddy;
approximately 140 of the children & some 50 adults were
killed. http://www.bev.net/computer/htmlhelp/vietnam.html

1977 - British CBS releases the Clash's self-titled first
album, a 14 song which contains such punk battle cries as
"White Riot," "Police & Thieves" & "London's Burning." CBS in
the U.S. refuses to release it until 1979 & even then will get
rid of the more virulent songs. Meantime, Americans will buy
100,000 imported copies of *"The Clash"*, making it one of
the biggest-selling import records of all time.

1977 - US: Catawba Indians of South Carolina ask Congress to
settle their claims regarding 144,000 acres, stemming from a
1763 treaty with the British. Ayn Rand denies they had any
property rights.

1979 - Pakistan: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Overthrown
President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto hanged for ordering the murder
of three political opponents while in office, Rawalpindi.
http://www.lonelyplanet.com.au/dest/ind/pak.htm

1981 - US: Yellow thunder Camp established in the Black Hills.

1984 - Oceania: Winston Smith opens his journal. It doesn't
look good for our hero. Thankfully, he has Big Brother to help
him through his difficult times.

1985 - US: Congress rejects Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader
Reagan's appeal for support for Nicaragua contras. His
administration provides aid illegally.

1996 - Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir & Jerry Garcia's
widow, Deborah, scatter part of Garcia's ashes in the Ganges
River in India.

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the fabulously famous home of the *Daily Bleed,* Recollection
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Dead Tunes all nite long * Sundays! (or twice a week if you
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1996 - Four arrested in New York City during march in support
of Puerto Rican political prisoners in US.

"I had been . . . crossing & recrossing the
line between sanity & madness so many times that
I had all but rubbed it out."
--Corwin, Prince of Amber, in The Guns of Avalon, by Roger
Zelazny

"I can see that you have a lot to unlearn."

"If you are talking about my vulgar instinct for survival, forget it."
--Hugi; Corwin, Prince of Amber, in The Courts of Chaos, Roger
Zelazny

" . . . the issue is not whether you're paranoid . . . The
issue is whether you're paranoid enough."

--Max, in Strange Days

"If you hadn't screwed up my past, your future wouldn't be
like this." --Bill Watterson as Calvin (8:30) to Calvin (6:30)

"I let my mind wander and it didn't come back." --Bill
Watterson as Calvin

"It's not denial. I'm just very selective about the reality I
accept." --Bill Watterson as Calvin


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