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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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