Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2001 13:36:15 -0800 From: "David Brown, Recollection" <recall-AT-eskimo.com> Subject: Daily Bleed: 11/4 JUDI BARI Daily whoosiz, in full, http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1104.htm Apologies for lateness. Mistakenly thought upgraded graphics card would be a matter of minutes. 18 hours later & computer is still crashing like crazy & corrupting the database. Lost 5 days "work" (pure joy). Could have been worse. Could still. I'll call Bill Gates, get him over to here & fix the bugger. Sigh. Snippets: I suffer the dreams of a world gone mad. I like it like that & I know it. I know it well, ugly & sweet, That temper madness with an even extreme." ----REM, "Leave" NOVEMBER 4 JUDI BARI Ecological activist, fiddler, labor radical, Earth-First warrior. http://www.judibari.org/ Oklahoma: WILL ROGER'S DAY. England, Australia, & New Zealand: MISCHIEF NIGHT. WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS DAY. http://www.scarysquirrel.org/endanger/newt.jpg 1780 -- The rebellion of Túpac Amaru II erupts in Peru. http://www.patriagrande.net/uruguay/eduardo.galeano/memoria.del.fuego/17801104.htm 1838 -- Stendhal begins The Charterhouse of Parma; whips it out in seven weeks. http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0123b.htm#1783 1870 -- French proto-surrealist Comte de Lautreamont dies. LAUTREAMONT Isidore Ducasse, precursor of French surrealism, poet of outrage & terror. Daily Bleed Saint, 1998. http://www.nothingness.org/SI/RV/ducasse.html http://www.creative.net/~alang/lit/surreal/writers.sht#Lautreamont 1879 -- Populist humorist Will Rogers lives. His epitaph reads: "I joked about every prominent man in my lifetime, but I never met one I didn't like." Will Power?: America honors him with a nuclear submarine, the USS Will Rogers SSBN 659, armed with 16 C-3 POSEIDON missiles having an explosive capability greater than all the bombs of World War II. 1897 -- Cipriano Mera lives (1897-1975). French anarcho-syndicalist http://deportes.ole.com/personal/cgtussam/mera.htm http://www.iisg.nl/archives/gias/m/10764268.html 1909 -- Peru: Ciro Alegría lives. Journalist, politician, novelist who wrote about the lives of the Peruvian Indians. Twice jailed for political activity, exiled to Chile in 1934, lived in the US from 1941-48. Wrote El mundo es ancho y ajeno, 1941 (Broad & Alien is the World ). http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/calegria.htm 1913 -- England: The 'Peoples Army' - formed to resist police interference with the demonstrations of the East London Federation of Suffragettes - begin paramilitary assembly and gun drill in Victoria Park. 1918 -- Only a week before the Armistice, Wilfred Owen ("Anthem for Doomed Youth") is killed in France at 25. He has defined his subject as "War, & the Pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity." Siegfried Sassoon, poet-friend with whom he had a brief & intense affair, edits his poems following his death. Yeats excluded Owens' "Anthem" from The Oxford Book of Modern Verse as "unworthy of the poets' corner of a country newspaper." Now considered the greatest of WWI poets. http://library.utoronto.ca/www/utel/rp/poems/owen3.html He has not been omitted from The Oxford Book of Daily Bleeds: DULCE ET DECORUM EST Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind. Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! An ecstasy of fumbling, Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time; But someone still was yelling out and stumbling, And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime . . . Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues - My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.* *"It is sweet & meet (fitting) to die for one's country." http://www.pitt.edu/~novosel/blind.gif 1921 -- Victorine Brocher-Rouchy, French militant anarchist, dies (1838-1921) http://www.iisg.nl/archives/gias/b/10729178.html 1922 -- Curses!?: British archaeologist Howard Carter & his workmen discover the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamen http://www.moviemalls.com/M/imagesM/dvdmummy1.gif 1933 -- Three thousand farmers demonstrate in Neilsville, Wisconsin. The action frees jailed leaders of a milk strike. "Four legs good, Two legs bad." --- George Orwell, Animal Farm http://www.cowswithguns.com/Cowstory.html 1954 -- Sweden: Stig Dagerman, 31, dies. Playwright, novelist, anarcho-trade unionist, poet. Created a review "40-tal ". Wrote The Snake (1945), & Island of the Condemned. Deeply pessimistic, he committed suicide: "Our need for consolation is impossible to satisfy." HERE RESTS A SWEDISH AUTHOR FALLEN FOR NOTHING THE CRIME WAS INNOCENCE FORGET HIM OFTEN http://hem.passagen.se/iblis/dagerman.html http://www.littlebluelight.com/dagermanlinks.html 1956 -- Hungarian revolt crushed by Soviet troops in Budapest. 'I taught myself to embroider during the hostilities when there was nothing else to do but wait to die while the Soviet tanks fired on our apartment building.' ^×Eniko Farkas http://www.hungary.com/corvinus/revolt/rev00.html http://www.nyfolklore.org/pubs/voices/voisu98/border.html The Knights T H E Y have remained unaltered like nature, not capable of a new inspiration, happy to make outward renunciations but without inward mutability. They're in no hurry to understand, they don't very much want to understand, still ornamented in the idiot glitter of old-fashioned armour, their old success. And watching cowardice in place of courage shoulder to shoulder in its careful ranks I see the origin of this infection, and trace the destiny of this obsession. The mighty horses have worn down to tatters. The knights are not the boys of the old days: subject to serious infirmity, terror of honesty, terror of battle. ---Yevtushenko http://www.cserkeszek.org/scouts/webpages/zoltan/1956.html Guerrilla bands fought on throughout 1957 but the last workers' councils were abolished on November 17th. Strikes & demonstrations continued until 1959. http://flag.blackened.net/liberty/hungary-rev.html http://www.slip.net/~knabb/SI/May68docs.htm http://www.panix.com/~notbored/councils.html 1969 -- Chicago Eight Trial becomes Chicago Seven Trial: Bobby Seale cited by Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Judge Julius Hoffman for contempt & given 4 years in jail; retrial ordered on Seale's case. http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/Graphics/Track16/chicago_8.gif 1998 -- US: Washington State voters, inspired by the fine artwork of Recollection Books & Daily Bleed's own SaintMeisterJim, pass medical marijuana initiative I-692. Pundits thought chances nil, after defeat of a similar bill in 1997, failing to comprehend the tremendous impact his fine artwork -- produced for the non-existent Marijuana Liberation Front (MLF) -- would have. http://www.seattlehempfest.com/ 1998 -- Poet, Irish Nobel laureate, Seamus Heaney leads valediction at Ted Hughes' funeral. "You have to go back to the death of Dylan Thomas or Lorca to find a time which so expresses that moment when a poet's death is expressed as a breach in nature" Heaney read the Dylan Thomas poem, "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night," & two of Hughes's finest works, "Go Fishing" & "The Day He Died". http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/images/poetry.jpg "The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." --- Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) http://www.philipkdick.com/ http://www.infoshop.org/img4/chooseandlose.gif ---anti-froth-corrupted lungs, 2000 or thereabouts, more or less
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