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Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 08:12:17 -0700
From: "David Brown, Recollection" <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 8/18 SERGE GAINSBOURG


Daily Bleed web page in full,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0818.htm

excerpts,

AUGUST 18 -- SERGE GAINSBOURG
French pop composer of existential malaise, angst, love.

Wales: Ancient Bardic TUORNEY OF DRUIDS. Group singing,
processions, musical & literary competitions, awarding of
bardic degrees.


1591 -- New World: The Governor of the
Roanoke Island colony returns from England.

The colony is no longer here, only an empty
fort & the word "Croatan".
http://www.autonomedia.org/goneto.htm
http://www.isomedia.com/homes/harpo/

1634 -- Burning of Urbain Grandier for witchcraft.
http://www.burningman.com/

1782 -- William Blake, 24, marries Catherine Sophia Boucher,
an illiterate whom he teaches to share his love of literature.
See the Daily Bleed Saints Gallery page,
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/saints/StBlakeWilliam.htm

1812 -- Lady Ludd "leads" Corn Market riot of women & boys,
Leeds, England.
http://www.bigeastern.com/ludd/nl_whats.htm

1823 -- Slaves in Demerara use the licence to travel on an official
rest day (for the purposes of churchgoing) to launch an uprising
of over 30,000

             1850 --      While his wife of five months waits
                                indifferently for the end, Honore de
Balzac
                                dies in Paris at 51 regretting that his
own
                                character, Dr. Biachon of La Comedie
                                Humaine, is not there to save him.

1893 -- The day after a riot of the unemployed, Emma Goldman
addresses a public  meeting, urging those in need to take bread if
they are hungry.

1922 -- Novelist/filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet lives, Brest.
Wrote The Erasers, The Voyeur,  Jealousy, Project for a Revolution
in New York.

1925 -- Arkady Strugatski lives. Russian author, who collaborated
with his brother Boris  Strugatsky & published acclaimed science
fiction novels.

1949 -- 1500 striking lumberjacks fight a pitched battle
against police & troops, northern Finland.

1958 -- Vladimir Nabokov's highly
            publicized Lolita is published
            in the US.
            http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/

1966 -- China: "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" begins,
as Red Guards summoned are by head honcho, Beloved &
Respected Comrade Leader Mao Tse-Tung, to Peking.
1,000,000 arrive in para-military fashion to hear Lin Piao
explain the big character poster,

                  "Bombard the  Headquarters".

So what's to explain?
http://mcel.pacificu.edu/MCEL/Barlow/Sp99/H316/GAMES.HTML

1977 -- Steve Biko, a leading student apartheid resister,
arrested, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Later murdered while
in custody.

                   "The most potent weapon in the hands of
                 the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."

                                       — Steve Biko

                      http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/

1985 -- In Lyons, the ROP print shop for Parisian daily papers is
wrecked,
in revenge for their lies & hostility towards the prison mutineers.


                        1987
                                   Zimbabwe novelist/dramatist Dambudzo
                                   Marechera, dies in Harare. Critical
                                   acclaim came with his collection of
                                   stories The House of Hunger. Growing
                                   up in poverty, he reacted by adopting

                                   an increasingly self-destructive
                                   lifestyle, was expelled from both the

                                   University of Rhodesia & New College,

                                   Oxford. Wrote The House of Hunger, a
                                   powerful account of life in his
country
                                   under white rule.

1996 -- 'The US prison population rises to nearly 1.6 million inmates
in 1995, double the number of a decade ago, the Justice Department
said.' (Reuters, Washington, DC). The US, by 1999, has the largest
per capita prison population in the world, along with Russia.

1997 -- First use of the term, Daily Bleed, coined by the
Good Doktor Dan, occurs 8/18/1997, on the BiblioManiac
email subscription list. Book forum where some fool
periodically sends off-topic mail about books.

On September 21, BleedMeister begins
ripping off his copyRite, serving up uselessly
recycled sludge on a daily-like basis in an effort
to slow-torture the said Doktor (& his minions),
who insists, like all good medical practitioners
worth their saltlicks,

        http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/images/abes2.gif


The spectacle is ideology par excellence, because it exposes
& manifests in its fullness the essence of all ideological
systems: the impoverishment, servitude & negation of real life.
The spectacle is materially "the expression of the separation &
estrangement between man & man." Through the "new power
of fraud," concentrated at the base of the spectacle in this
production, "the new domain of alien beings to whom man is
subservient... grows coextensively with the mass of objects."
It is the highest stage of an expansion which has turned need
against life. "The need for money is thus the real need produced
by political economy, & the only need it produces" (Economic &
Philosophical Manuscripts). The spectacle extends to all social
life the principle which Hegel (in the Realphilosophie of Jena)
conceives as the principle of money: it is

               "the life of what is dead, moving within itself."

                 — Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle

        http://www.nothingness.org/SI/debord/SOTS/sotscontents.html


---anti-MovingDead 2001






   

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