Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 08:43:18 -0800 From: "Dave, Recollection Books" <recall-AT-eskimo.com> Subject: Daily Bleed: 11/11 NAT TURNER Daily Bleed, in full, 85 bleedin' links, http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1111.htm KENNETH REXROTH (before reading his poetry): “Well, what would you like tonight, sex, mysticism or revolution?” WOMAN IN AUDIENCE: “What’s the difference?” http://www.slip.net/~knabb/PS/Rexroth.htm NOVEMBER 11 -- NAT TURNER Slavery? The Chains of the Law have been broken! US: VETERAN'S DAY. MARTINMAS, one of four "quarter days" in Old England when rents were paid. As celebration there was feasting & drinking. Also called the "TEAR-STOMACH DAY." Martin was the patron of beggars, tavern keepers & wine growers, probably because his day coincides with the ancient "FEAST OF DIONYSUS." Netherlands: ELEVEN ELEVEN ELEVEN DAY. Tradition says eleven is the number of fools. On the 11th day of the 11th month a council of 11 begins organizing the next year's carnival, "so anyone can be as foolish as he or she cares to be for those three days." REMEMBRANCE DAY. (Australia, Canada, etc). INTERNATIONAL ANARCHY DAY (Anniversary of the execution of the Haymarket Martyrs). 1821 -- Russian novelist Fydor Dostoevsky lives. Kenneth Rexroth describes Dostoyevsky as a “man of many messages, a man in whom the flesh was always troubled and sick and whose head was full of dying ideologies--at last the sun in the sky, the hot smell of a woman, the grass on the earth, the human meat on the bone, the farce of death” -- from his book Classics Revisited. http://www.maths.nott.ac.uk/personal/pad/Dostoevsky2/ http://www.kiosek.com/dostoevsky/quotations.html http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/fdosto.htm 1831 -- American slave rebellion leader Nat Turner hanged, Jerusalem, Virginia. NAT TURNER 1997 SAINT. Slavery? The Chains of the Law have been broken!. 1863 -- Paul Signac lives, (1863-1935), Paris. French artist & contributor, along with Aristide Delannoy, Maximilien Luce, Alexandre Steinlen, Theo van Rysselberghe, Camille Pissarro, Van Dongen, George Willaume, etc., to the anarchist magazine "Temps Nouveaux". Dave, I have checked a used book -- your stock in trade, I believe... John Rewald's basic book on Impressionism. Paul Signac was the last painter to join the Impressionist group before...Gauguin exhibited... "Seurat would meet his friends at . . . The regular Monday gatherings in Signac’s studio in the Avenue de Clichy, where Signac welcomed his painter friends & some men of letters such as . . . Paul Adam . . . etc. "On other occasions, Seurat, together with Signac . . . joined a group of poets & writers where from 1884 to 1886 almost every day gathered . . . Félix Fénéon, Paul Adam . . . & their friends. "At this brasserie, symbolism was born. ..." At the Taverne Anglaise, there appeared most of Fénéon’s painter friends, Pissarro, Seurat, Signac . . . "Those who were born between 1855 & 1865 were . . . Seurat . . . Signac . . . Fénéon..."Fénéon occasionally told stories that would have made young maids blush . . . Signac was . . . outspoken & loud; he reveled in the use of an extensive but unprintable vocabulary. " . . .all were committed to the extreme left. Political matters were of grave concern to them, & their convictions were . . . inseparable from their works." -- John Rewald, Post Impressionism ---Wild Bill Koehnline http://artchive.com/artchive/S/signac.html http://artcyclopedia.com/artists/signac_paul.html 1865 -- Mark Twain writes an epitaph for Bummer, the long-time companion of Lazarus. Mark Twain hated those who belittled Norton. Twain worked next door to Norton's pathetic flophouse & saw the man nearly every day. .. Upon hearing of the Emperor's death, Twain wrote ... suggesting that the Emperor would make a fine subject for a book. & a fit of writer's block removed itself & Twain was able to complete two novels: Huckleberry Finn which featured a lost Dauphin & The Prince & the Pauper, a story of confused identities. Through these, he paid homage to the man he'd known. http://home.nycap.rr.com/useless/norton/norton.html http://www.notfrisco.com/colmatales/norton/norton2.html 1887 -- Haymarket Martyrs – August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer & George Engel, all anarchists – executed, Chicago. A fifth, 23-year-old Louis Lingg, killed himself in his cell last night. Prosecutors found no evidence they threw the bomb & the police chief fabricated evidence ... 250,000 people line Chicago's streets during Parson's funeral procession. The executions elicits an international outcry. ...Governor John P. Altgeld pardons the three activists still imprisoned. http://www.pitzer.edu/~dward/Anarchist_Archives/haymarket/Haymarket.html 'There will come a time when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you are strangling to-day' ---Albert Spies 1894 -- Commemoration of the Haymarket martyrs held in New York City; poorly attended, speakers include Charles Mowbray, German anarchist & barkeeper Justus Schwab, Voltairine de Cleyre, Max Baginski, Emma Goldman & John Edelmann, editor of the anarchist journal "Solidarity". "Every anarchist hole was entered & the assassins in some instances were dragged from their beds." 1914 -- Twenty-seventh anniversary of the death of the Haymarket martyrs held in Chicago, where Emma Goldman participates in the commemoration. "The police followed the retreating anarchists & sent deadly volleys into their midst." http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/prisoner.html 1916 -- Twenty-ninth anniversary of the death of the Haymarket anarchist martyrs. Bill Haywood, Lucy Parsons, & Emma Goldman speak at a large memorial meeting in Chicago. Collections are made for, in Goldman's words, "the living victims in the social war," including Tom Mooney, Carlo Tresca < http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sinners/TrescaCarlo.htm >, Caplan, Schmidt, & the IWW members arrested in Everett Massacre in Washington state. 1918 -- WWI comes to an end. 8.5 million dead, 21 million wounded, 7.5 million prisoners & missing... plus worldwide influenza epidemic kills 22 million by 1920. Participating governments may stand tall & proud, they have done well what they do best. More to come, with a better body count & more thorough devastation. But, hey, let's talk of anarchists & chaos... WWI in literature: Jaroslav Hašek: The Good Soldier Schweik R.H. Mottram: The Spanish Farm Trilogy Ford Madox Ford: Parade's End Arnold Zweig: The Case of Sergeant Grisha Richard Aldington: Death of a Hero Robert Graves: Good-bye to All That Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms Siegfried Sassoon: Memoirs of an Infantry Officer Henry Williamson: The Patriot's Progress Frederick Manning: The Middle Parts of Fortune John Don Passos: Three Soldiers e.e. cumming: The Enormous Room Henri Barbusse: Under Fire Dalton Trumbo: Johnny got His Gun Humphrey Cobb: Paths of Glory TO ARMS! CAPITALISTS PARSONS POLITICIANS LANDLORDS NEWSPAPER EDITORS & OTHER STAY-AT-HOME-PATRIOTS YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU IN THE TRENCHES. WORKERS FOLLOW YOUR MASTERS! – Poster, Sydney, Australia 1915 Shot for desertion: 266 soldiers, 2 officers Shot for cowardice: 18 soldiers Shot for disobedience: 5 soldiers Shot for sleeping on post: 2 soldiers Shot for quitting post: 7 soldiers Shot for striking or violence: 6 soldiers --- British Army Official Statistics, 1918 Little Song of the Maimed Lend me your arm to replace my leg The rats ate it for me at Verdun at Verdun I ate lots of rats but they didn't give me back my leg & that's why I was given the croix de guerre & a wooden leg & a wooden leg – Benjamin Peret, c.1920 Lest we forget. 1918 -- 11th hour / 11th day / 11th month... Thu, 11 Nov 1999 12:55:53 -0500 From: Flames To: bibliomania-AT-mediawest.com [Once again, my traditional 11/11 post] On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month the guns finally stopped firing. The young men who had been sent there by the old men back home could finally raise their heads above the mud for the first time in four years & look out across the shell-churned fields at the other young men, not 500 yards away, who stared numbly back at them. A minute before the other men had been enemies & now they were not. Many of the men in this trench had never particuarly felt like the men in the other trench were enemies, but the old men back home had said that they were, so that's what they were. Go figure... WALTZING MATILDA [Eric Bogle - Australian folk singer] (...in full at the Daily Bleed web page)... And those that were left, well we tried to survive, amidst all that blood, death and fire. And for ten weary weeks I kept myself alive, while around me the corpses piled higher. "Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda, Who'll come a Waltzing Mastilda with me?" And their ghosts may be heard, as they march by that billabong, "Who'll come a waltzing, Matilda with me?" NO MAN'S LAND [also by E.B.] Did they beat the drum slowly, did they sound the fife lonely? did the rifles fire o'er ye as they lowered you down? Did the bugles play the "Last Post" and chorus? did the pipes play "The Fields, and the Forest"? 1919 -- American Legion (armed "patriots") attacks & destroys IWW labor hall, kill five; the upstanding citizens kidnap, torture, castrate & lynch Wesley Everest, a WWI veteran & IWW organizer, Centralia, Washington. http://www.tpl.lib.wa.us/cgi-win/fulltcgi.exe/Centralia_Massacre|labor\centrali.mas 1922 -- Novelist Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. lives His novel Slaughterhouse Five) is based on his experiences as a prisoner-of-war at Dresden, & its total destruction in 1945. Vonnegut uses fantasy & science fiction to highlight the horrors & absurdities of 20th century "civilization". Tiger got to hunt Bird got to fly Man got to sit & wonder "Why, why, why?" Tiger got to sleep, Bird got to land, Man got to tell himself he understand. The Books of Bokonon No damn cat, & no damn cradle. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle 1925 -- Louis Armstrong records first of Hot Five & Hot Seven recordings. http://www.technoir.net/jazz/louie.html 1927 -- Mose Allison, jazz artist ("Parchman's Farm," "Back Country Suite"), lives. http://www.li.net/~swrhs01/allison.html http://shs.starkville.k12.ms.us/mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/musicians/Allison.html http://www.mcs.net/~modika/mose.html http://www.mcs.net/~modika/mose.html 1928 -- Seattle's jazz great Ernestine Anderson lives 1929 -- Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German poet, radical critic, lives. http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/jacket03/enz03.html http://www.dickinson.edu/departments/germn/glossen/heft1/rainer.html http://www.tagesspiegel.de/archiv/1999/11/05/ak-ku-li-18851.html 1942 -- Jimi Hendrix, rock guitar wizard, lives, Seattle 1959 -- First episode of "Rocky & His Friends" airs. http://www.geocities.com:80/SunsetStrip/Alley/7199/rocky15.jpg 1970 -- Bob Dylan novel, Tarantula, published. http://www.execpc.com/~billp61/boblink.html http://www.rockmine.music.co.uk/BobBooks.html 1971 -- English novelist, playwright, poet, politician, & author of more than 50 books, A. P. [Alan Patrick] Herbert, famous for his witty championing of minority causes, dies 1978 -- US: Gay San Francisco city supervisor Harvey Milk & mayor George Moscone are assassinated by ex-supervisor Dan White. White is later convicted of the lightest charge possible in the infamous "Twinkie defense"; defense argued that White was depressed because of overconsumption of junk food. http://www.planetsoma.com/sf1970/scene/harvey.html 1982 -- Vietnam Veterans Memorial dedicated in Washington, D.C. Fittingly, & in character, no representatives of the administrations that conducted the war show up. 2000 -- US: Florida, Re-vote early, re-vote re-often. http://wcsb.org/~swain/graphics/Floridaballot.jpg http://www.go.com/cimages?907970d.jpg&col=WR "The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return." --- Gore Vidal You, The hyena with polished face & bow tie, In the office of a billion dollar Corporation devoted to service; The vulture dripping with carrion, Carefully & carelessly robed in imported tweeds, Lecturing on the Age of Abundance; The jackal in the double-breasted gabardine, Barking by remote control, In the United Nations... The Superego in a thousand uniforms, You, the finger man of the behemoth, The murderer of the young men... – Kenneth Rexroth, "Thou Shalt Not Kill", written in response to the death of Dylan Thomas. (see also 22 December) http://www.rooknet.com/beatpage/rexroth/index.html http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/rebels/poets.htm ---anti-"Why, why, why?" 2000-3000 more or less, sooner or later
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