Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 07:53:05 -0700
From: "Dave, Recollection Books" <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 10/1  MARSILIO FICINO


Daily Bleed in full blast mode:
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1001.htm

    How close the clouds press this October first

    & the rain--a gray scarf across the sky.

            — Stephen Dobyns, "No Map"



OCTOBER 1-- MARSILIO FICINO
 Great Renaissance neo-Platonist & occultist.

Very important to remember...

  OCTOBER is . . .
Auto Battery Safety Month


1838 -- Trail of Tears: 4000 Cherokees die when
17,000 of them are forced west by Beloved &
Respected  Comrade Leader US President
Jackson's Indian Removal bill, the culmination of
his efforts to exterminate them. Jackson was also
a notorious land speculator, slave trader &
bribe-artist.

1842 -- Charles Cros, the inventor of the phonograph,
was the most popular poet-singer of this
kind in mid-nineteenth-century Paris, and his poems
spoke for a way of life completely unassimilable
by the money-crazy, hypocritical, debauched,
& puritanical society of Louis
Napoleon’s gimcrack Second Empire.

It is out of people like Charles Cros, simple, sensuous,
lyrical, & sarcastic, that poets like
Verlaine come, & all of those that he, Verlaine, first
called “poètes maudits,” the cursed,
the outcast poets, Germain Nouveau, Arthur Rimbaud,
Alfred Jarry, Tristan Corbière,
Jean Richepin. All of these poets are still sung.

            --- Kenneth Rexroth, Subversive Aspects
                 of Popular Songs
http://www.slip.net/~knabb/rexroth/songs.htm
                 http://history.acusd.edu/gen/recording/cros.html

1847 -- An item to consider for including in the Daily
Bleed on October 1, 2000

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 11:52
From: "Wild Bill Up On the Hill"

Dave,
Here's another suggestion with lots of lead time, based
on astronomy picture of the day. Maria Mitchell,
pioneer American woman astronomer, discovered
her very own comet (Mitchell 1847V) on October 1,
1847. She lived from 1818 to 1889 (don't know the
DAY of her birth or death), was one of the most
famous scientists of her day. She was the first
woman to be appointed a professor of astronomy
(Vassar), & the only woman elected to American
Academy of Arts & Sciences until 1943. Lots of the
Bleed's saints & sinners would support her two-word
quote: "Question everything."

                      http://www.mmo.org/

1856 -- First installment of Flaubert's Madame Bovary
appears, publisher refuses to print passage about Emma's
adulterous liaison in the back seat of a cab.

1863 -- 5 Russian war vessels entered the port of
New York &  were warmly received.

Cold War soon follows.

1867 -- Fernand Pelloutier lives, Paris. Socialist who
became an anarchist through the influence of Augustin
Hamon

1871 --   "Today is the first day of October. It is a
veritable gold & crimson fantasy as far as the eye can
see. Such splendor, such magnificence: the golden sun
rising from the smoke hazed mountains transforming
them into a wonderland of riotous colours then
continuing on in its orbit ever upward
radiating in the vast heavens of cerulean blue."

         "The Last Return From the Sea,"
         The Captain's Lady's Cookbook

1873 -- The father of the detective novel, Émile
Gaboriau, dies

1885 -- Poet Louis Untermeyer born.
On his 90th birthday he boasts,

         "I'm writing my third autobiography. . .
         the other two were premature."

1890 -- US Congress passes McKinley Tariff Act, taxing
opium at $10 a lb. if manufactured for smoking.

   SMOKE! SMOKE! SMOKE! (THAT CIGARETTE)

   Written by Merle Travis for Tex Williams; the release
    not only saved Tex Williams'  waning career, but also
    became Capitol Records' first million-seller.

    "I smoked 'em all my life & I ain't dead yet..."
http://www.globerecords.com/Cody.html
http://www.globerecords.com/VideoClips.html#lincoln

1905 -- 'Wild Beasts', a group of artists including Henri
Matisse, make their debut at the Salon d'Atutomne

1910 -- The Mexican the Libéral party adopts
anarchist slogan, "Tierra y Libertad".

1911 -- Andre Dupont (aka Aguigui Mouna) lives.
French agitator, propagandist pacifist,
philosophical & individualistic libertarian.

Mixes pacifism & anarchistic individualism.
Broke & on the streets of
Paris he discovered his talent as agitator:

   "It is while speaking that one becomes a
    loudspeaker".

1919 --   "Say it ain't so, Joe..."

1929 -- "Un Chien Andalou" by Bunuel & Dali
screened at Studio 28.

       And these
       resigned faces,
       which once bore
       flashes of
       desire like ink
       splattered on a
       wall, were like
       shooting stars.
       Let gin, rum &
       brandy flow like
       the Great
       Armada. This for
       the funeral
       oration. But all
       those people
       were so
       commonplace.

1949 -- Pacifica Foundation (founded 1946) starts first
radio station, KPFA in Berkeley (April 15
they air their first show). Founded by Lewis Hill, poet,
pacifist & journalist.
http://www.wbaifree.org/pachist.html
http://www.kpfa.org/
 http://www.alsopreview.com/foley/jfoley.html

1949 -- US: 500,000 steel workers strike.

1968 -- e1-e4?: Surrealist artist Marcel Duchamp dies,
Neuilly, Paris. Gave up art for chess.

1970 -- Jimi Hendrix buried in Seattle, Washington.
Mourners include Miles Davis, Johnny Winter,
Eric Burdon, & Eric Clapton's group,
Derek & the Dominoes.

1985 -- E.B. White, author, dies.

1995 -- Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young,
Hootie & The Blowfish &
The Dave Matthews Band raise nearly
$1 million at Farm Aid concert


      "We live in a decaying age.

                    Young people no longer respect
                    their parents.
                    They are rude & impatient.
                    They frequently inhabit taverns
                    & have no self control."

                    --Inscription, 6000 year-old Egyptian tomb
                     (quoted in R. Buckminster Fuller's
                       I Seem to be a Verb).


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