Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 09:56:45 -0800 Subject: Daily Bleed: 1/13 PAUL FEYERABAND Daily Bleeed, updated http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0113.htm excerpts: The Sedge is wither'd from the lake, & no birds sing. ^× John Keats JANUARY 13 -- PAUL FEYERABAND Viennese-born, Swiss-based anarchist philosopher who demanded separation of Science & State. England: ST. HILARY'S DAY, year's coldest. Feast day of the patron saint of lawyers. FESTIVAL OF THE BODY HABITS. 1834 -- Horatio Alger lives. Children's author, had a thing for young boys. 1874 -- Too Clubby?: Tompkins Square massacre. As unemployed workers demonstrate in New York City's Tompkins Square Park, mounted police officers charge into the crowd, indiscriminately clubbing adults & children, leaving hundreds of casualties. Police commissioner Abram Duryee boasts, (quote): "It was the most glorious sight I have ever seen . . ." Today's Tompkins Square Park demonstration is part of a wave of unemployed parades & bread riots across the nation. 1894 -- Italy: Insurrection in Lunigiana as anarchists bands arm themselves in support of Sicilian victims of the State of Siege 1898 -- Novelist Emile Zola blows the lid off rampant anti-Semitism & a military cover up in the Dreyfus Affair with publication of J'accuse! 1898 -- Kaj Munk lives. Danish playwright & priest, whose outspoken sermons & plays during World War II led to his murder. 1929 -- Wyatt Earp, a noted scoundrel, crook & US marshall (OK Corral), dies at 80. 1931 -- Flora Nwapa (1931-1996) lives, Oguta, eastern Nigeria. Author & forerunner of a whole generation of African women writers. 1941 -- James Joyce dies in Zürich, Switzerland, unhappy with the reception given his work. All day I hear the noise of waters Making moan, I hear an army charging upon the land, & the thunder of horses plunging, foam about their knees... http://www.robotwisdom.com/jaj/ 1995 -- Algeria: Eight opposition groups sign plan for ending civil war. ____________ "People need a little loving &, God, sometimes it's sad all the shit they have to go through to find some." ^× Richard Brautigan ---anti-GoThrough, 2000-3000, more or less
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