Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 06:11:27 -0700
Subject: Daily Bleed: 6/23 I'll spit on your graves


Un Adult Rated Bleed,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/today.htm

Adult Rated Bleed:

1871 -- Louis Lecoin lives. French antimilitarist, pacifist, anarchist.

"If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a
chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one
does not create human society on mounds of corpses."

1889 -- Anna Akhmatova lives (1889-1966), Bolshoy Fontan,
near Odessa, Ukraine. One of the greatest
Russian poets, member of the Acmeist group.

1916 -- Cabaret Voltaire shut down by public demand.

1937 -- Following the Communist suppression of the anarchists
& the P.O.U.M., in which he served during the Spanish Civil War
& Revolution, George Orwell
flees Spain with his wife.

1958 -- Boris Vian (1920-1958) dies of a heart attack while at a preview

screening of a film version of his 1947 novel, J'irai cracher sur vos
tombes
(I'll spit on your graves).
Vehemently anti-militarist & pacifist, an extremely gifted
writer & jazz musician.

1963 -- Nicaragua: Sandinista Colonel Santos Lopez attacks &
occupies the towns of Raiti & Walaquistán on the Coco river.

There is no moment but the fall of the sun. The day is day
& the night, night, but the dusk is hour of agony & frightful
solitude...

1964 -- Freedom Riders Chaney, Goodman & Schwerner murdered,
by KKK near Philadelphia, Mississippi...

1972 -- Life magazine publishes photos of South Vietnamese children
running from napalm.

1990 -- Fly in the Ointment?: Fly-fisher Norman Maclean dies...