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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 12:32:49 -0800
From: Recollection Books <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Penubras: 3/26 EDWARD BELLAMY


Web Grubbers, updated, in full,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0326.htm

Text excerpts:

MARCH 26

EDWARD BELLAMY
American utopianist, his tract Looking Backward prophesied
a socialist paradise in the year 2000. Bullseye!

FESTIVAL OF MASKED MASTURBATION.

UNIVERSAL DOLE DAY.

AFRICAN LIBERATION DAY

FUN ON (Welcome! Mat?) MATT'S BIRTHDAY.
Whole world quits working for one day of sheer
unadulterated feasting, cavorting, mayhem.


752 - Job stress?: Pope Stephen II dies after serving for
only two days.

1199 - Richard I, "Lion heart," wounded by a crossbow at
Chalus.

1827 - German classical composer Ludwig von Beethoven
begins decomposing, Vienna, Austria.

1850 - Edward Bellamy, author of “Looking Backwards”,
lives.

1859 - A. E. (Alfred Edward) Housman lives, Fockbury,
Worcestershire. "I could no more define poetry than a terrier
can define a rat."
http://library.utoronto.ca/www/utel/rp/authors/housman.html

1871 - France: Paris Commune elects members.

1871 - France: Insurrectionary movement in Creusot, in
sympathy with Saint Etienne & Paris a Commune is
proclaimed.

1872 - Ernest Armand (1872-1963), individualist, free love
activist, lives. Wrote “l'Initiation individualiste
anarchiste”" (1923) & “La révolution sexuelle et la
camaraderie amoureuse” (1934).
http://www.alumni.umbc.edu/~akoont1/tmh/revintro.html

1874 - American poet Robert Frost lives, San Francisco,
California.

“Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is
lost in interpretation."
http://www.libarts.sfasu.edu/Frost/Index.html

1879 -- Georges Conchon (1879-1959) lives, Chartres,
France. Tapestry maker, anarchist & very popular
secretary of the "Federation of Tenants" Helped
the evicted with bill & taking over housing.
 See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page,
 http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/ConchonGeorges.htm

1889 - Jacques Doubinsky (1889-1959) lives, Russia. As a
young Russian labor radical he joined the Ukrainian peasant
uprising in 1918, fighting with the insurrectionary Makhnovist
army.

1890 - Raymond Callemin, member of the anarchist Bonnot
Gang, lives. Met Victor Serge in Belgium, with whom he
started the  paper, "L'anarchie".  Callemin was arrested
April 7, 1912 in Paris & sentenced to death February 28,
1913. Callemin was guillotined April 21, 1913.

1892 - Great American poet Walt Whitman mows no more,
age 72, Camden, New Jersey. Constantly revising &
augmenting his “Leaves of Grass”, he receives the final,
ninth, edition on his deathbed.
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/supermarket.html

1897 - Oscar Wilde's wife writes about her husband's arrest
&imprisonment: "I think his fate is rather like Humpty
Dumpty's, quite as tragic & quite as impossible to put
right."
http://www.bibliomania.com/Fiction/wilde/index.html

1904 - Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) lives. American writer
on mythology & comparative religion. 'The truth is one, the
sages speak of it by many names.'
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/campb.htm

1910 - Making Amends? US Congress bars paupers, anarchists,
criminals, & the diseased from the US; Immigration Act of
1907 amended.

1911 - Tennessee Williams lives, Columbus, Mississippi.
Prominent post-WWII American playwright, who suffered
severe mental & physical breakdown in the 1960s.

1915 - Switzerland: International Women's Socialist
Conference held, Berne.

1915 - Virginia Woolf suffers a nervous breakdown following
publication of her first novel, “The Voyage Out”.

1916 - Birdman of Alcatraz receives solitary, for giving a
guard the bird.

1918 - As anarchist draft resister Philip Grosser reports
from Alcatraz Prison that he & other opponents of World
War I are being tortured. Minneapolis is the scene of the
first so-called "Slacker Raid," a dragnet of men without
draft cards.

               Minneapolis is the scene of the first
               so-called "Slacker Raid," a dragnet of
               men without draft cards.

               During WWI, the raids will seize more
               than 40,000 non-registrants across
               the country ( On July 15th, 1919, the
               U.S. War Department announces it
               has classified more than 337,000
               American men as "draft dodgers.")
http://cinepad.com/reviews/slacker.htm

1920 - F. Scott Fitzgerald's first book, “This Side of
Paradise” published; it sells 20,000 copies in a week. At
23 he is the youngest novelist ever published by Scribner's.
http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/index.html

1920 - American poet & leading member of the Beats, Gregory
Corso, lives New York. Convicted of theft at 17, he
discovers literature in prison & later meets Allen Ginsberg & publish
his first book, “The Vestal Lady on Brattle” in 1955.
http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/People/GregoryCorso.html

1923 - Bulgaria: In Yambol, during an anarchist protest
against the governments decision to disarm the people, the
army shoots into the crowd, wounding the speaker Atanas
Stoitchev & massacre others. About 30 are murdered here,
including others executed at the Yambol barracks tomorrow.

1937 - US: Statue dedicated to Popeye the Sailor Man,
Crystal City, Texass.

1958 - Four pacifists set sail, intending to cross
restricted zone around US pacific weapons testing site.

1959 - Raymond Chandler dies.

Master of hard-boiled school of crime fiction. His best
known character is the tough but honest private detective
Philip Marlowe (from the violent tempered 15th  century
writer Christopher Marlowe). Wrote for “Black Mask”,
which also published Dashiell Hammett.

See also "hard-boiled" writers Jonathan Latimer, Horace
McCoy, Chester Himes. - Norman Mailer's hard-boiled
detective novel “Tough Guys Don't Dance” (1984) owes
much to Chandler's style.

Received 1946 Edgar Award from the Mystery
Writers of America for a screenplay & in 1954 for a novel.

American writers in Hollywood in the 1930s & 1940s:
William Faulkner, Ben Hecht, Nathanael West, James M.
Cain, John Fante, Daniel Fuchs, Horace McCoy, Clifford
Odets, Maxwell Anderson, Dorothy Parker, John Dos
Passos, Theodore Dreiser, Dashiell Hammett,
F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Other famous PIs solving crimes in LA: Ross MacDonald's Lew
Archer; Erle Stanley Gardner's Bertha Cool & Donald Lam;
Johanthan Kellerman's Alex Delaware; Walter Mosley's Easy
Rawlins, Anthony Boucher's Fergus O'Breen; Frank Gruber's
Simon Lash.

1966 - Over 50,000 march in Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace
Parade in New York City.

1967 - New York City Central Park Love-In, 10,000 show up.

1968 -- US: Yippies submit application for demonstrations
to Chicago Parks Department.
 http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Chicago7/chicago7.html

1969 - John & Yoko Ono-Lennon start seven day bed-in
against the Vietnam War.

wonsaponatime therewas two Ballons called Jock & Yono.
They were strictly love-bound to happen in a million years.
They werer together man. Unfortunatimetable they both
seemed to have previous experience-which kept calling them
one way oranother.(you know howitis). But they battled on
against overwhelming oddities, includo some of there beast
friends ...
.Being in love they cloong even the more together man --
but some of the posionessmonster of outrated
buslodedshithrowers did stick slightly & occasionaly had to
resort to the drycleaners. Luckily this did not kill them & the
werent banned from the olympic games. They lived hopefully
ever after, & who could blame them.

1969 - Mexico: Anarchist novelist B. Traven dies. Wrote one
of the great travel ship novels, “The Death Ship”. Makes the
Titanic blush...

1978 - 500 fast against construction of nuclear reactors,
Switzerland.

1990 - Space tomato seeds planted at Johnson Space Center,
Earthbound seeds planted at the same time. After two weeks,
space seeds had 85 percent germination rate, Earth seeds 62
percent rate. So there.

1996 -- Germany: During the Squatter's Movement, which
comes under heavy government attack for the next two years,
The Palisadenstrasse 49 is evicted.
 http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/1003b.htm#1990

2000 -- Alex Comfort dies. British physician, sexologist,
anarchist, poet, novelist, etc.

"You have only to speak for once --
they will melt like the dust:
you have only to spit in their faces -- they will go
howling like devils to swindle somebody else..."

       --- Alex Comfort (1920-2000),
       excerpt from "The Soldiers"

See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page,
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sinners/ComfortAlex.htm


                A Supermarket in California

                    --- Allen Ginsberg

What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I
walked down the side streets under the trees with a
headache
self-conscious looking at the full moon.

In my hungry fatigue, & shopping for images, I went into
the
neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!

What peaches & what penumbras! Whole families shopping at
night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados,
babies
in the tomatoes!--& you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing
down by the watermelons?

I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber,
poking
among the meats in the refrigerator & eyeing the grocery
boys.

I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork
chops? What price bananas?...

(excerpt)


Auntie-Enumerations 2001


"Free thought, necessarily involving freedom of speech &
press, I may tersely define thus: no opinion a law -- no
opinion a crime."

       ---Alexander Berkman



   

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