Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 11:01:48 -0800 From: "Dave, Recollection Books" <recall-AT-eskimo.com> Subject: Daily Bleed: 12/30 DANIIL KHARMS "Literary Hooligan" The North, the waves, the ocean capsize the boat, the Four, now pallid, drink deeply of anguish, farewell to Paris, farewell to you all, farewell to life, God damn it! — Victor Serge, excerpt, "Constellation of Dead Brothers" Daily Bleed in full, web page & links, http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1230.htm excerpts, DECEMBER 30 -- DANIIL KHARMS "Literary Hooligan," starved to death in Respected & Beloved Comrade Leader Uncle Joe Stalin's prisons. There are different accounts of his death. In the gloomiest version, he was simply forgotten after the arrest & eaten in his cell by rats. This is too much like one of his own stories to be true. The sanitation commission, while making its rounds of the apartments, saw Kalugin, found him unsanitary & good for nothing & ordered the housing cooperative to throw Kalugin out with the garbage. They folded Kalugin in half & threw him out as garbage. —Daniil Kharms, "The Dream," August 22, 1936 http://www.grandstreet.com/gs/gs60/kharms.html http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8926/Kharms/ FESTIVAL OF ENORMOUS CHANGES AT THE LAST MINUTE. 1816 -- Two & a half years after eloping to Switzerland Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (daughter of the philosophical anarchist William Godwin) & Percy Bysshe Shelley are married, upon learning that Shelley's first wife has drowned herself. http://www.pitzer.edu/~dward/Anarchist_Archives/godwin/Godwinarchive.html 1847 -- John Peter Altgeld lives, Niederselters, Prussia. Reformist Democratic governor of Illinois (1893-97) known principally for his pardon (June 26, 1893) of anarchists "involved" in the Haymarket Riot where seven police were killed. 1865 -- Rudyard Kipling lives, Bombay, India. British Imperialist celebrator-apologist, author. 1876 -- Mustafa Lutfi al- Manfaluti lives, Manfalut, Egypt. Essayist, short-story writer, pioneer of modern Arabic prose. 1883 -- Marie Gevers lives, Edegem, Belgium. Franco- Belgian novelist/poet whose work, almost without exception, evokes the Kempenland, a rural area where she spent most of her life at her family estate. 1890 -- Victor Serge lives, Brussels, Belgium. Novelist, poet, historian, & militant activist. Sympathetic to anarchists but rather badly treated by them because of his involvement with Communists & Trotskyists. Like Daniel Guerin (& many other critical Marxists), as he grew older, his politics moved increasingly leftward, leading him later in life to espouse a hybrid of anarchism & Marxism. Condemned to five years prison for complicity with the Bonnot Gang. Collaborated on the newspapers "L'anarchie", "Tierra y Libertad" & "Solidaridad Obrera" (CNT newspaper in Barcelona). Wrote Le rétif (1909-1912), The Anarchists & the Experiment of the Russian Revolution, Memoirs of a Revolutionist, The Obscure Turning, Midnight in the Century (1939), Conquered City, etc. City Lights books recently published his poems (a fine little volume entitled Resistance, translated by Jim Brook). http://users.skynet.be/johneden/fiction/resist.htm http://users.skynet.be/johneden/fiction/whitesea.htm 1908 -- No Balls?: Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston. http://www.guerrillagirls.com/ 1910 -- Paul Bowles, composer, author, husband of Jane Bowles, lives (1910-1999), New York City. 1916 -- Poet, Second Lieutenant Wilfred Owen ("Anthem for Doomed Youth"), of the Manchester Regiment, leaves England for the Western Front. 1918 -- Al Purdy lives, Wooler, Ontario, Canada. 1919 -- Germany: On the initiative of Rudolf Rocker, the founding Congress of F.A.U.D. (Freie Arbeiter Union Deutschland), free union of the German workers, is held in Berlin, from the 27th-30th. The union declares itself anarchist-syndicalist & opposed to the State & parliamentarism. It eventually counts 125,000 members. See Anarchist Encyclopedia for Rocker, http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sinners/RockerRudolf.htm http://www.fau.org/ 1936 -- US: GM workers sit-down strike spreads to Flint, Michigan. The strike began two days ago in Cleveland, Ohio. 1941 -- Nazis require Dutch physicians to join Nazi organization. Forced to pay dues, Dutch Treat? 1944 -- France: Romain Rolland, author & pacifist, dies. Won 1915 Nobel Prize. 1946 -- Singer/poet Patti Smith lives. 1952 -- US: Out of Lynch Pins?: Tuskegee Institute reports this is first year in 71 years with no lynchings in the country. 1995 -- US: Right-to-Life (sic) gunman murders Shannon Lowney of Planned Parenthood & Lee Ann Nichols of Preterm, women's health care clinics in Brookline, Massachusetts. 1997 -- Danilo Dolci, "The Sicilian Gandhi," twice a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, dies. http://www.clubi.ie/shalom/lectio/danilodolci.html "In the long run we are all dead." — John Maynard Keynes, economist http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8926/Kharms/kharms_walking.gif ---anti-LongRun 2000-3000, more or less
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