Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 19:03:23 -0800
From: "Dave, Recollection Books" <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 10/29 ALAN TURING
Daily Bleed, in full,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1029.htm
Excerpts,
Beware
the pomegranate
set loose
in an Airport.
OCTOBER 29 -- ALAN TURING
British computer theorist, fatal victim of gay oppression.
Iroquois FEAST OF THE DEAD.
Held every 12 years, the dead are reinterred & honored,
with huge a grave dug & lined with beaver skins.
FESTIVAL OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE.
Dancing on our own graves.
1618 -- Got Canned?: Due to a failed expedition to
exploit Guiana, Sir Walter Raleigh (History of the
World) executed, Tower of London.
1740 -- James Boswell, biographer of Dr. Johnson, lives
http://history.hanover.edu/early/boswell.htm
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Johnson/
1745 -- English poet, biographer, & patron of the arts,
William Hayley lives, Chichester, Sussex.
Remembered for his friendships with William
Cowper & William Blake.
1867 -- Tom MacInnes lives, Dresden, Ontario.
Canadian writer whose works range from vigorous,
slangy recollections of the Yukon gold rush (Lonesome
Bar, 1909), to a translation & commentary on the
philosophy of Lao-tzu, irreverently titled The
Teaching of the Old Boy (1927).
"Many men lost their minds on the Dead Horse Trail.
Others lost their lives as a diet of rotten horse flesh
led to raging fever. Screams of pain echoed through the
canyons like deranged spirits throughout the winter
of 1897."
http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/7/0,5716,50957+1+49750,00.html?query=tom%20macinnes
http://www.arts.uwo.ca/canpoetry/cpjrn/vol07/bentley.htm
1886 -- England: "Freedom" begins publication in
London, as a monthly, in October 1886. From the start it
was intended not as the mouthpiece of a particular
roup but as an independent voice in a wider
movement.
http://web.cs.city.ac.uk/homes/louise/freehist.html
1897 -- Henry George dies.
"The equal right of all men to the use of land
is a clear as their equal right to breathe the air
-- it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their
existence."
---Henry George, Progress & Poverty
http://www.zip.com.au/~hgnsw/
http://www.progress.org/cg/
http://www.henrygeorge.org/
1901 -- Leon Czolgosz, self-proclaimed anarchist,
electrocuted for the assassination of US President
McKinley. Emma Goldman is one of the few anarchists
who refuses to disown him.
1902 -- The Dinwiddle Quartet from Virginia is the first
African-American singing group on record when they
record six single-sided discs, including "Down at the Old
Camp Ground," on the Victory Talking Machine
Company's Monarch label.
1902 -- Fredric Brown, American writer, lives.
One of the most ingenious American crime & mystery
writers, Brown also wrote science fiction to overcome
-- as he said -- the too real aspect of detective fiction.
http://www.inria.fr/robotvis/personnel/devernay/fredric/brown.html
http://www.Catch22.com/SF/ARB/SFB/
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/fbrown.htm
1918 -- Germany: Wilhelmshaven Revolt. Sailors mutiny,
take over naval base, garrison & city of Kiehl; Soldiers,
Sailors & Workers Councils elected. The German
government falls on November 10.
See "The Wilhelmshaven Revolt," by 'Ikarus,' (Jan Appel,
who co-wrote Memoirs of Revolutionaries with Otto Ruhle.)
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/8195/ger_int.htm
http://www.geocities.com/WallStreet/9973/council.html
http://mars.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/germany/lectures/18rev1918.html
http://www.arts.uwo.ca/chomsky/mit/
1936 -- Singer Hank Snow makes his first recordings,
"Lonesome Blue Yodel" & "Prisoned Cowboy."
1940 -- USA: First compulsory peace-time draft initiated.
1942 -- d.a. levy lives, Cleveland, Ohio. Poet.
http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/People/DALevy.html
http://www.thing.net/~grist/lnd/dalevyc.htm
1947 -- US: Flying in a specially outfitted aircraft,
Vincent Schaefer of the General Electric Company
drops small dry-ice pellets into cumulus clouds over a
forest fire near Concord, Massachusetts, in an attempt
to produce artificial rain & douse the flames.
I'll sit down on a burnin' ring of fire
I will try to flush it down
But the flames they'll get higher
And it'll burn, burn, burn
That ring of fire
That ring of fire!
--- "Thank God I'm a ChileHead,"
sung to the tune of Johnny Cash's
Ring of Fire
1958 -- Boris Pasternak, under intense pressure from the
Soviet government & press, wires the Swedish Royal
Academy his "voluntary refusal" of the Nobel Prize for
Literature. One of his crimes is to have written -- in his
novel, Dr. Zhivago -- too sympathetically of the anarchists,
& not kindly enough of the Bolsheviks.
"Am I a gangster or
murderer?
Of what crime do I stand
condemned?
I made the whole world
weep at the beauty of my
land."
http://www.rjgeib.com/heroes/pasternak/paster.html
1958 -- Good Ol' USA: Atomic bomb named 'Santa Fe'
exploded above ground; winds blow fallout over LA
where thermal inversion holds it over the city for several
days. Not that the residents can tell the difference --
it's a glow in the dark kinda place.
1961 -- First 50-megaton bomb exploded, USSR.
1969 -- US: Chicago Eight Trial, 29th-31st: Beloved &
Respected Comrade Leader Judge Hoffman orders Bobby
Seale bound & gagged (after Seale is refused permission
to act as or have his own defense counsel)
1969 -- US: Too Easy?: 100 demonstrators disrupt
university ROTC with "nonviolent ridicule," Buffalo, NY.
1970 -- US: Anti-war protesters pelt Prez Dick M Nixon's
motorcade with rocks & eggs in San Jose, California.
1979 -- "Up Against The Wall Street Journal" direct
actions disrupt New York Stock Exchange & financial
district on 50th Anniversary of the stock market crash
of 1929. Over 1,000 arrested.
1981 -- George Brassens, French anarchist poet/songster,
dies. See 22 October 1921.
"La camarde, qui ne m'a jamais pardonné
d'avoir semé des fleurs dans les trous de son
nez, me poursuit d'un zèle imbécile..."
---"Supplique pour être enterré à la plage de Sète"
1992 -- A high-ranking Russian official says a review of
newly opened archives clears Alger Hiss of accusations
that he ever spied for the Soviet Union.
Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Dick M Nixon
used Red-baiting publicity to catapult his odious career
to the White House. (See Halberstam's The Fifties).
http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/ecp/10/214/images/00430001.gif
http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/ecp/10/214/html/00010016.html
1998 -- Britain's poet laureate Ted Hughes, whose stormy
marriage to American poet Sylvia Plath dogged his
reputation for many years, dies, just months after the
publication of Birthday Letters, a book of poems about
his relationship with Plath.
He sang
How the swan blanched forever
How the wolf threw away its telltale heart
& the stars dropped their pretense
The air gave up appearances
Water went deliberately numb
The rock surrendered its last hope
& cold died beyond knowledge
He sang
How everything had nothing more to lose
Then sat still with fear
Seeing the clawtrack of star
Hearing the wingbeat of rock
& his own singing
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I have always imagined that Paradise
would be a kind of library.
--- Jorge Luis Borges
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/library.jpg
http://www.empirezine.com/spotlight/borges/borges.htm
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