Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:08:24 -0700 From: "Dave, Recollection Books" <recall-AT-eskimo.com> Subject: Daily Bleed: 7/20 FRANTZ FANON Daily Bleed in full (it helps if you have a 70-mile wide bandwidth connection for downloading or someplace to go for awhile). http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0720.htm For the bandwidth impaired, excerpts: July 20 1801 -- A 1,235 pound cheese ball... [& you know who you are] 1920 -- Italy: Arrest papers issued in Milan for Armando Borghi 1925 -- Algerian psychiatrist & revolutionist Frantz Fanon lives. 1929 -- Moorish Orthodox leader Noble Drew Ali dies This bud opens into the red rose, the nightingale is drunk for joy--- Hail, seekers! Lovers of wine; wine for a thirsty world like a slug under the rock of repentance... 1933 -- Novelist Cormac McCarthy lives 1936 -- The anarchist Francisco Ascaso is killed For two there are floral displays, but Ascaso faces eternity with only a stone. Maybe as it should be. He was a stone, a stone & a blade, the first grinding & sharpening the other. ---Philip Levine, "Francisco, I'll Bring You Red Carnations," 7 Years from Somewhere 1948 -- US indicts 12 Communist Party leaders, charging them with advocating overthrow of government. 1968 -- Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader LBJ assures South Vietnamese President Thieu the US will pursue Vietnam War at present pace. NAPALM. "Some of the finer selling points were explained to me by a pilot in 1966: 'We sure are pleased with those backroom boys at Dow. The original product wasn't so hot -- if the gooks were quick they could scrape it off. So the boys started adding polystyrene -- now it sticks like shit to a blanket. But then if the gooks jumped under water it stopped burning, so they started adding Willie Peter [WP -- white phosperous] so's to make it burn better. It'll even burn under water now. & just one drop is enough, it'll keep burning right down to the bone so they die anyway from phosperous poisoning.'" --- Philip Jones Griffiths, photographer, Vietnam Inc. 1971 -- Gone postal.... "I mock thee not, though I by thee am mockéd. Thou call'st me madman, but I call thee blockhead" ---William Blake 1979 -- Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier escapes Lompoc federal penitentiary, California. 1996 -- British anarchist Albert Meltzer's ashes scattered "Every time you build a prison, you close a school." --- Victor Hugo ---antiCopyRite 3000 & then some.
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