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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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