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Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 14:29:54 -0800
From: "Dave, Recollection Books" <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 12/12 ALEXANDRA DAVID-NEEL


          and I discovered later floating over
          the drowned tribes, links of foam tumbling
          blindly against the sides of a ship.

          – Alí Chumacero, excerpt, "The Wanderings of the Tribe",
           translated by William Carlos Williams

Daily Bleed in full,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1212.htm

excerpts,

DECEMBER 12 -- ALEXANDRA DAVID-NEEL
First woman explorer of Tibet & its mysteries.
Successively & simultaniously anarchist, singer,
feminist, explorer, writer, lecturer, photographer,
buddhist, architect, mail artist, sanskrit grammarian
& Centenarian.

  If "heaven is the Lord's," the earth is the inheritance
 of man, & that consequently any honest traveller has
 the right to walk as he chooses, all over that globe
 which is his.

            — Alexandra David-Neel, France,
                 My Journey to Lhasa

"David-Neel was exceptional. Not only were independent
women travelers like her unusual, but Europeans versed
in Sanskrit and Buddhist philosophy, who also spoke
Tibetan and could communicate with those they met,
were extremely rare..."

        — Dalai Lama

http://www.butterfly.net/neoism/squares/cantsin_05.html
http://home.fireplug.net/~rshand/reflections/buddha.html


FIESTA OF THE VIRGIN OF GUADALUPE,
greatest of the great Mexican fiestas. Not only is the
Virgin patroness  of the Mexican Revolution, but has
absorbed the cult of the Aztec goddess of earth & of
corn. Vestiges of the Aztec ceremonies persist in this
fiesta.

Arizona: Hopi Indians begin eight-day-long
 FAREWELL TO  AUTUMN.

Polynesia: FEAST OF REKAREKA, God of Pleasure.

USA: NATIONAL DING-A-LING DAY.


1792 -- Cheap at twice the price?: Beethoven pays Haydn 19
cents for his first music lesson.
http://www.geocities.com/~jolietjake/snl.html

1821 -- French writer Gustave Flaubert lives, Rouen.
See Kenneth Rexroth's Classics Revisited.

                GUSTAVE FLAUBERT 1998 Saint
                Dedicated his life to writing the perfect sentence.

                http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/flaubert.htm

1853 -- Birth of Julian West, protagonist of Edward
Bellamy's Looking Backward.

1863 -- Yikes?: Norwegian printmaker/painter
Edvard Munch screams for first time. One of
the hordes of smiley-faced-Scandanavians.

                Illness, insanity & death are the
                black angels that kept watch over my
                cradle & accompanied me all my life.

                          --- Edvard Munch

1916 -- Dr. Ben Reitman arrested in Cleveland for
organizing volunteers to distribute birth control
information at Emma Goldman's lecture "Is Birth
Control Harmful--a Discussion of the Limitation
of Offspring."

1918 -- Joe Williams, jazz singer, lives.

1928 -- Helen Frankenthaler, lives -- can't be a saint
but paints like an abstract angel.
http://www.anthemion.com/frankenthaler/
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/frankenthaler_helen.html
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/F/frankenthaler.html
http://www.nmwa.org/legacy/bios/bfranken.htm

1937 -- The FCC scolds the NBC radio network for a
skit that starred Mae West. The satirical routine was
based on the biblical tale of Adam & Eve &, well,
it got a bit out of hand. So... following its scolding,
NBC banned Miss West from its airwaves for 15
years. In fact, even the mere mention of
her name on NBC was a no-no.

1950 -- US: Washington's Sulgrave Club is scene of a
brawl between columnist Drew Pearson & Beloved &
Respected Comrade Leader Senator Joseph McCarthy.

           Said McCarthy: "I slapped him hard."
           Said Pearson: "The Senator kicked me twice
           in the groin."

1962 -- Mayor George Chacharis of Gary, Indiana
pleads guilty to income tax invasion.

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought,
stays bought.

        --- Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Simon
             Cameron (Abe Lincoln's Secretary of War)

1964 -- US: Solidarity Bookstore opens, Chicago,
Illinois, distributing anarchist, surrealist, Wobbly &
libertarian socialist literature to the nation for the
next 10 years or so.

1969 -- Bomb explodes, Banque Nationale d'Agriculture,
Milan, Italy. 18 die, many injured.

Authorities later admit the bombing was the work of
fascists. Italian Intelligence & fascist army units
(created by US Army from Mussolini's Intelligence)
were making bomb attacks & pretending they were by
anarchists. See for example, the killing of the
railwayman/anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli by police
(15 December) & the false arrest of Pietro Valpreda.
Now referred to as the "State slaughter".

            "Stai attento, indiziato Pinelli,
            questa stanza é giá piena di fumo,
            se tu insisti, apriam la finestra,
            quattro piani son duri da far".

            --- "Ballata per l'anarchico Pinelli", attributed
                 to L.Francisci-Anonymous, Eliseo.

Pinelli was also the focus of the play, Accidental
Death of an Anarchist, by Dario Fo
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/songs/it_pinelli.html
http://www.sofri.org/monta.html
http://www.informagiovani.it/Terrorismo/tercronolog.htm

1973 -- US: Women members of United Steelworkers
of America (Local 1066) protest sex discrimination,
Gary, Indiana. (& just who named the town "Gary",
eh?)

1983 -- 70 people arrested in Boston outside a hotel
where a "New Trends in Missiles" trade conference
is being held. Inside the hotel, over 1,000 cockroaches
are let loose to symbolize the likely survivors of
nuclear war.

1999 -- Author Joseph Heller, dead at 76. Now with
the Snowdens of  Yesteryear.



         "It is by the goodness of God that in our
          country we have those three unspeakably
          precious things: freedom of speech, freedom
          of conscience, & the prudence never to
          practice either of them."

          — Mark Twain




--- anti-YesterYear, 200-201


   

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