Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 07:34:48 -0800
From: "David Brown, Recollection" <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 11/9 DYLAN THOMAS


Daily Bleed, counted & recounted,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1109.htm

Excerpts...

                      Imagine it. A radio playing
                      & everyone here was crazy.
                      I liked it & danced in a circle.
                      Music pours over the sense
                      & in a funny way
                      music sees more than I.
                      I mean it remembers better;
                      remembers the first night here.
                      It was the strangled cold of November;
                      even the stars were strapped in the sky
                      & that moon too bright
                      forking through the bars to stick me
                      with a singing in the head.
                      I have forgotten all the rest.

                            --- excerpt,
                            M U S I C   S W I M S
                            B A C K   T O   M E
                            ---Anne Sexton

NOVEMBER 9 -- DYLAN THOMAS
Welsh Poet, drunk, high-liver, lifestyle libertarian.

CHAOS NEVER DIED DAY.

NO COOKIES DAY.
http://www.wwinfo.com/gen/nocookie.shtml


1832 -- Émile Gaboriau, French novelist who became
known as  the father of the roman policier
("detective novel"), lives.

1875 -- US: Indian Bureau reports that Plains Indians
outside reservations are "well-fed . . . lofty &
independent in their attitudes, & are a threat to the
reservation system."

"Maybe we should not have humored them when they
asked to live on reservations.

Maybe we should have said, No, come join us.
Be citizens along with the rest of us."

                   ---Acting President Ronald Reagan during
                   a trip to Moscow, when a student asked
                   about US treatment of Native Americans

1928 -- Poet Anne Sexton lives, Newton, Massachusetts.
            http://www.inch.com/~ari/as1.html
            http://www.levity.com:80/corduroy/sexton.htm
            http://www.poetinmo.com/16-20/18.html

1939 -- Got Yours Yet?: Nobel for physics awarded to
Ernest O. Lawrence (cyclotron).
http://www.recumbent.com/ani-master.gif

1943 --  US: Today, after Igal Roodenko's
               strike had reached the 12th day,
               he was arrested...

1953 -- Welsh poet Dylan Thomas dies, age 39,
following a six-day coma brought on by drinking 18
straight whiskeys in a New York tavern. At the
funeral parlor, a friend looking down at the body
with its rouged face & garish suit, carnation in
buttonhole, says: "He would never have been seen
dead in it."

                "I hold a beast, an angel, & a
                madman in me, & my enquiry is as to
                their working, & my problem is their
                subjugation & victory, downthrow &
                upheaval, & my effort is their
                self-expression."

http://www.brunching.com/images/poem-dontgothere.jpg
Poetry, biography, links, audio, at:
http://www.levity.com/corduroy/thomas.htm
http://dylan_thomas.tripod.com/
http://www.atelierpix.com/lumiere/fugitive/influences/

1979 -- US: Computer error causes six-minute "nuclear
war alert". US Air Defense Command
computer reports that Russia is attacking.

1982 -- Zonker Harris receives one vote for the
governorship in Illinois.

                "Reader, suppose you were an idiot. &
                suppose you were a member of Congress.
                But I repeat myself. "

                --- Mark Twain: Manuscript note, c.1882.

1982 -- Acting President Reagan is asked if he'll be
visiting the new Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

                "I can't tell until somebody tells me," he says,
                "I never know where I'm going."

1985 -- Carpetbagger?: Toasting Princess Diana on her
first visit to the US, Acting President  Reagan refers to
her as "Princess David." Better yet, observes a BBC
correspondent,

          "President Reagan greeted the Prince
          & Princess wearing a plaid jacket that was remarkably
          similar to the  carpet at Balmoral Castle."

1989 -- Germany: Berlin Wall comes tumbling down,
signaling end of half-century-long Cold War. Wall opens
in response to nonviolent action.
http://www.bakersfield.org/bfk/f/humpty/humpty_dumpty_2_wall.jpg
http://members.aol.com/johball/berlinwl.htm

2000 -- US: Ballots reviewed in Florida after Bore
loses to Gush by margin of 666 votes.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/vote_sat.jpg

              The hand that signed the paper felled a city;
              Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath,
              Doubled the globe of dead & halved a country;
              These five kings did a king to death.

              The mighty hand leads to a sloping shoulder,
              The finger joints are cramped with chalk;
              A goose's quill has put an end to murder
              That put an end to talk.

              The hand that signed the treaty bred a fever,
              & famine grew, & locusts came;
              Great is the hand the holds dominion over
              Man by a scribbled name.

              The five kings count the dead but do not soften
              The crusted wound nor pat the brow;
              A hand rules pity as a hand rules heaven;
              Hands have no tears to flow.

                               --- Dylan Thomas



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