Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 10:33:39 -0800
From: "Dave, Recollection Books" <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 12/23 RAMON LULL


           It roamed on earth many long nights & days,
           Filled with a wonderful thirst,
           & earth's boring songs could not ever replace
           The sounds of heaven it lost.

                 — Mikhail Lermontov


Daily Bleed in full, updated, 48 entries,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1223.htm

excerpts,

DECEMBER 23 -- RAMON LULL
Catalan mystic, philosopher, much influenced by Islam.
http://www.chronique.com/Chronique/rlull.htm

Oaxa, Mexico: FEAST OF THE RADISHES.
Non-fat we trust.


1617 -- Penal Envy?: First penal colony in North
America established in Virginia. (Sorry, Bill, that is
p-e-n-a-l, not p-e-n-i-s.)

                    'The soul is
                    the prison of
                    the body...'

                    --- Michel Foucault,
                    Discipline & Punish

http://showcase.netins.net/web/dendrys/reviews/b/discnpun.html
http://www.sla.purdue.edu/people/soc/mdeflem/zfouc.html

1860 -- Harriet Monroe, founder/longtime editor of
"Poetry" magazine, lives, Chicago, Illinois.
http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/orient/mod2.htm

1870 -- "Downtown" John Marin lives. Stableman
in Alfred Stieglitz's "stable," second only to Georgia
O'Keeffe. "Downtown New York", c. 1925,
with musical accompaniment at,
http://www.reynoldahouse.org/downtown.htm

1877 -- Luigi Fabbri lives, Fabriano, Italy.
Professor, Italian anarchist, theorist, writer.

Fabbri & Pietro Gori participated in the review
"Il pensiero". Contributed to Umanita Nova, an anarchist
daily paper published by Errico Malatesta in
Milan, along with Gigi Damiani, Camillo Berneri,
Nella Giacometti, Armando Borghi, etc. Fabbri
escaped the fascist regime in 1926
http://www.iisg.nl/archives/gias/f/10748404.html
http://flag.blackened.net/ksl/bullet11.htm#Fabbri

1888 -- Vincent Van Gogh cuts off his ear. Lost one
of his earphones, so he didn't need it anymore.

1902 --
                 "...one way all men are born
                 equal is in being born at least
                 a little bit crazy, some being
                 born more equal than others."

Norman Maclean (1902-1990) lives
Firefighter, fly-fisher, scholar,
storyteller. Author  of A River Runs Through It.

Eventually, all things merge into one, & a river
runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great
flood & runs over rocks from the basement of time.
On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under
the rocks are the words, & some of the words are
theirs.

I am haunted by waters.
http://www.moshplant.com/prob/prob01/ring.html

1953 -- North Korea: 21 American POWs refuse
to come home.

1954 -- England: Bertrand Russell broadcasts
on "Man's Peril" -- the H-bomb.

                "One of the symptoms of an
                approaching nervous
                breakdown is the belief that
                one's work is terribly
                important. "

                 — Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

http://www.mcmaster.ca/russdocs/russell.htm
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/russell/

1966 -- Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader
Catholic Cardinal Spellman arrives in Vietnam for
a five-day Christmas visit, stating U.S. troops were
there for the

         "defense, protection, & salvation not only of
         our country, but...of civilization itself."

Who says there is no shame?

1972 -- The Real Dirt?: Charles Atlas, body
builder, dies at 79


                HALLIE FLANAGAN 1997 SAINT
                Purveyor of Depression-era, socially-
                conscious theater.
                http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/fedtp/ftbrwn01.html


                      "Whenever people agree with me, I
                          always feel I must be wrong."

                                — Oscar Wilde


---anti-BasementTime, 2000-3000, more or less