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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