Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 10:26:31 -0700
From: "Dave, Recollection Books" <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Life is Like a Sewer: 7/23 RAYMOND CHANDLER


Daily Sewage Treatment Plant in full,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0723.htm

July 23 --RAYMOND CHANDLER
    Fine writer of class-conscious detective fiction.

They'll find real saints to draw from . . .

        And no one will work for the money.
        No one will work for the fame.

1620 -- Wee Hours?: RNI, Brooklyn pirate radio station, begins
broadcasting
 at 1620 AM.

1846 -- Protesting slavery & U.S. involvement in the Mexican War, Henry
David Thoreau refuses to pay his $1 poll tax & is put in jail

1881 -- London socialist life is enlivened by the International
Revolutionary Congress.

1888 -- Detective writer Raymond Chandler lives

Kenneth Rexroth on Chandler & Hammett:

          "The secret of this kind of writing is that it isn't buying
anything & it isn't
          selling anything.''

1892 -- Alexander Berkman attempts to assassinate the despised Henry
Clay Frick

1928 -- In NY, Hubert Selby, Jr. begins searching for the last exit to
Brooklyn.

1940 -- John Nichols, lives.

1944 -- Max Nettlau (1865-1944) dies of stomach cancer in Amsterdam.
Austrian anarchist, historian, bibliographer, philologist, insatiable
collector.

1967 -- Start of Detroit upheavals, seven days of social unrest,
fighting with cops,
anti-business & anti-government actions, including looting.

LOOTING is a natural response to the unnatural &
                    inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly

                    undermines the commodity as such, & it also exposes
what the
                    commodity ultimately implies: the army, the police &
the other
                    specialized detachments of the state's monopoly of
armed
                    violence.

     "Watts 1965: The Decline & Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy"

1967 --  Your ultimate bus driver:

                        who poverty & tatters and hollow-eyed & high
                                              sat up
                           smoking in the supernatural darkness of
                                         cold-water flats
                                floating across the tops of cities
                                      contemplating jazz ...

1980 -- Mollie Steimer (1897-1980) dies, at
her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Russian-American-Jewish-Mexican  anarchist & labor agitator.

1987 -- Publicity stunt for Daily Bleed (recall-AT-eskimo.com)
John Poindexter is reported to have used the phrase "I can't recall," --

or some variation thereof -- 184 times during his five days of
testimony.
Got to get him new internet connection.



      "Life is like a sewer. What  you get out of it depends on
                                 what you put in."

                                 ---Tom Lehrer,
mathematician/philosopher