Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 11:31:03 -0800
From: "David Brown, Recollection" <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 11/2 IGNACIO SILONE


Daily Bleed, updated (except for links) & in full,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1102.htm

xcerpts,

                             Was it all true once? Just like
                             It says? I cannot find the past.
                             It is only anecdotes
                             For the company & the parching
                             Of a few more hidden nerves
                             Each Year.

                                     ^× Kenneth Rexroth, exerpt from
                                        The Dragon & the Unicorn

NOVEMBER 2 --  IGNACIO SILONE
Anti-fascist Italian novelist
with a passion for social justice.

ALL SOULS DAY.

Cheshire, England: SOULCAKER'S PLAY, featuring
King George, The Dragon, An Old Woman, The Turk,
Doctor Quack, Hobby Horse & Beelzebub.

Brittany: Beginning of "THE BLACK MONTHS."

Sicily: Good little girls & boys get sweets & toys from
their ancestors on DEAD RELATIVES DAY.

SADIE HAWKINS DAY.

DEBUNKING DAY.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/anarchist/Nobody_Cares.gif


1811 -- England: Luddite weavers & knitters smash
machines in Sutton & Ashfield designed to displace them
& destroy their leisurely cottage-industry.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/6576/
http://www.bigeastern.com/ludd/temp.htm

1837 -- Someone in Winslow, Maine didn't like
Mr. Wood; his tombstone reads:


                                        In Memory of Beza Wood
                                           Departed this life
                                             Nov. 2, 1837
                                             Aged 45 yrs.
                                          Here lies one Wood
                                           Enclosed in wood
                                              One Wood
                                            Within another.
                                            The outer wood
                                             Is very good:
                                           We cannot praise
                                              The other.

1872 -- Henri Zisly lives (1872-1945), Paris. French militant
anarchist, writer, advocate of libertarian naturalism
(anarchists were pioneers of naturism / nudity; Andre Lorulot,
Eugene Humbert, E.Armand, Ch. Auguste Bontemps were other
advocates); his editorships included L'Humanité nouvelle
1895-1898, L'Etat naturel 1894-1898 & La Vie naturelle Paris
1907-1920.
http://www.iisg.nl/archives/gias/z/10777653.html

1890 -- Moa Martinson dies. Novelist, among the
first to depict landless agricultural workers in Swedish
countryside. Married proletarian novelist
Harry Martinson
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/moamar.htm
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/harrymar.htm

1892 -- Jean Roumilhac lives. Fought with  the Spanish
republicans. President of S.I.A. (International solidarity
Antifascist).
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/novembre1.html#2
http://users.skynet.be/AL/LIBRAIRIE/campion.htm

1909 -- IWW (Industrial Workers of the World)
free-speech fight, Spokane, Washington. Apparently
ignorant laborers have to help business & corporate
interests figure out meaning of the Bill of Rights.
http://www.infoshop.org/texts/iww.html
http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/iww.html
http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~corlu/iwwbib.html

1911 -- Greek poet, winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize
for Literature, Odysseus Elytis, lives, Iráklion, Crete.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/elitis.htm

1920 -- US: Imprisoned anti-war & labor activist Eugene
Debs receives over one million votes for President.
http://www.ukans.edu/kansas/pullman/texts/debs.html
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Heroes/EugeneDebsSocialism.html

1937 -- Maryse Condé lives, Point-ŕ-Pitre (some
sources say Feb.11, 1937).  Guadeloupean playwright
& author of epic fiction, best-known for her historical novel
Ségou (1984-85).
 http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/conde.htm

1939 -- Canada: Arthur Bortolotti's trial begins. Emma
Goldman was active on behalf of anarchists in Spain
during the Civil War & on behalf of four men,
including Arthur Bortolotti (Anti-Deportation Campaign)
& Marcus Joachim, arrested in Toronto for anti-Fascist agitation.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/SpecColl.lib/LabadieManuscripts.html

1950 -- At home in Ayot St. Lawrence, George Bernard
Shaw, 94, dies from complications following a fall. His
last words: "You're trying to keep me alive as an old
curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die."

                                 "To be in hell is to drift; to be in
                                  heaven is to steer."

1955 -- US: Tennessee Ernie Ford's "Sixteen Tons" first
appears on the charts. It is one of the biggest selling
singles of its time

1961 -- James Thurber, American humorist & short
story writer, dies.

                    "It is better to know some of the questions
                    than all of the answers."

http://home.earthlink.net/~ritter/thurber/index.html

1966 -- Great country bluesman "Mississippi" John Hurt
dies in Mississippi at the age of 73.
http://www.mudcat.org/hurt.cfm
http://www.vanguardrecords.com/Hurt/home.html

1969 -- Italy: Two-day Congress of the F.A.I, in Carrare.
Not surprisingly, differences develop between anarchists
& situationists.

"The secret of the misery of daily life is the real State
secret...The Spectacle is nothing but the private property
of the means of publicity, the state monopoly of
appearances. With it, only the circulation of
commodities remains public.

The Spectacle is nothing but the circulation of
commodities absorbing all available means of publicity,
thus condemning misery to invisibility.

The spectacle is the secret form of public misery, where
value operates implacably while the deceived gaze only
meets things & their use."

              --- Jean Pierre Voyer, Reich, How to Use

http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/rbr/rbr3_italy.html
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/3374/index.html
http://www.slip.net/~knabb/SI/blindmen81.htm
http://www.zpub.com/notes/aan-edu.html

1972 -- US: Asian-American protesters from nearby
International District sling mud at  the ground-breaking
ceremony for a new domed stadium (the Kingdome) in
Seattle, Washington. Now it is just a fond memory hole.

1989 -- How's This One? U.S. nun Diana Ortiz is
kidnapped, beaten, raped & tortured near Guatemala
City by U.S.-backed Guatemalan military.
The U.S. Embassy claims Ortiz staged
her own abduction & rape.


                                   Gods, goddesses,
                  wear the winged head dress

                         of horns, as the butterfly
                                                antennae,

                  or the erect king-cobra crest
                  to show how the worm turns.

                  --- H.D. "The Walls Do Not Fall," Trilogy


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