malgré tout, à ignorer le pessimisme qui est à l'homme ce
que l'hiver est à la nature. Or les pires froids n'ont jamais
empêché le printemps de revenir, ni l'été de mûrir les moissons,
et les plus abondantes seront toujours celles d'hommes forts
et d'esprits libres..."?
— Marcel Body, Un piano en bouleau de Carélie
Daily Bleed, in full:
http://www.recollectionbooks.
excerpts:
OCTOBER 23 -- RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE
Chronicler of the Street in the French Revolution.
Inventor of the term "communism."
San Juan, Capistrano: SWALLOWS DEPART.
Probly no place left to poop.
FEAST OF FOOLS. And you know who you are.
FESTIVAL OF FORGOTTEN GODS. Ditto.
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1734 -- Lazy Boy?: French writer, early communist
theorist, Restif de la Brettone lives.
"Chronicler of the Street" during the French Revolution,
inventor of the term "communism". Monsieur Nicolas,
Number 48 on Kenneth Rexroth's list in Classics Revisited.
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1804 -- William Blake writes to William Hayley:
"Dear Sir, excuse my enthusiasm or
rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual
vision whenever I take a pencil or
engraver into my hand...."
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1874 -- Germany: Otto Rühle lives. Left council communist
of the Spartacist League (anti-Leninist, it included Liebknecht,
Luxemburg, Mehring, et al).
1887 -- England: Huge crowds, gathering daily in
London's Hyde Park & Trafalgar Square to hear
speeches, turn into mobs.
1894 -- Marcel Body lives. Wrote for the
anarchiste & pacifist press.
"Pessimism is for man as winter is with nature.
Yet the worst cold never prevented spring from
returning, nor the summer to mature the harvests,
& most abundant always will be those of strong
men & free spirits... "
— Un piano en bouleau de de Carélie
1903 -- US: First attempt to test anti-anarchist immigration
act: At an event at Murray Hill Lyceum, where Emma Goldman
is scheduled to speak, the Brit John Turner is
arrested. Turner was "detained" on Ellis Island until deported,
with the words "Let freedom ring" burning his ears.
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1920 -- Spain: In Badalona several Cenetistas are arrested.
Part of an orchestrated attack on the best revolutionary labor
militants during this period, marked by targeted arrests & murders,
sponsored by business interests, rightwingers & the Catholic Church.
1926 -- US: Suffragette Olympia Brown dies
Daily Bleed Saint 1998. American suffragist
leader, women's rights activist.
1927 -- Surrealist poet Philip Lamantia lives (d.2005), Frisco, California.
Expelled from a junior high school for “intellectual delinquency”.
http://www.litkicks.com/
1939 -- Author Zane Grey dies when his heart
attacks him, in an ambush from behind a rock.
1956 -- Hungarian Revolution erupts, spontaneous
workers' councils form, state capitalism is threatened,
Russian tanks called in.
250,000 people, many students, workers & soldiers,
demonstrate in Budapest in support of the insurrection
in Poland.
http://recollectionbooks.com/
1962 -- England: 124 arrested in demonstrations at US & USSR
embassies in London against Cuban Missile Crisis. Nice turn out,
considering this crisis has the world on the edge of nuclear
destruction.
"Don't you hear the H-bomb's thunder /
Echo like the crack of
doom?"
— John Brunner,
science fiction author,
wrote the "CND anthem"
1973 -- US: Eight impeachment resolutions introduced
in the House. Dick's in trouble again & they
be kickin' his tires hard.
1978 -- Cut & Run?: "The Stories of John Cheever"
published to great acclaim but Cheever remarks:
"A collection of short stories is...for the elderly
writer who wants to display the trophies of his
youth, along with the trout flies."
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/
1987 -- US: B-a-a-d to the Bone?: Senate rejects Acting
President Reagan's nomination of Bobby Bork to the
Supreme Court. Says one observer of Bork's failure to
win over undecided senators,
"The dogs just didn't like the food."
1987 -- Tahiti: Slumming in Paradise? Slum dwellers
& youth go on a rampage of looting, smashing & burning
in the business & tourist quarters of the capital.
1995 -- No Art-a-Chokes?: Rapper Tone-Loc is
ordered to take an anger management class after
fighting a pizza delivery person (Anne Chovey?)
over a pizza he didn't like.
1998 -- US: Dr. Barnett Slepian, a 51-year-old doctor
providing abortion services, is shot & killed in Amherst,
NY, in front of his wife & child, by anti-abortion
"pro-life" (sic) terrorists.
1999 -- US: You Are Being Watched For Your Own Safety...
http://www.notbored.org/ap.
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"A Criminal is a person with
predatory instincts without sufficient
capital to form a corporation."
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— anti-Catchup 1997-3666, more or less
http://recollectionbooks.com/
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