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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