Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 10:22:29 -0700
Subject: Daily Disclaimer: 4/4 DOROTHEA DIX


Industrial Web Version:
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0404.htm

text excerpts:

listen, you will
hear the deafening song of the stars
a silence brilliant and ringing as ice
a lovesong, it seems, made out of no love
and no song,
and the earth here to hear it.

        — Tobey Hiller, "Night"

APRIL 4

DOROTHEA DIX
Advocate of humane treatment for so-called "mentally ill."

Ancient Rome: FESTIVAL OF THE MAGNA OF PHRYGIA,
a reliquary embodied in a small meteorite. An ecstatic
procession with the magna mater in a chariot drawn by
lions, castrated priests leaping & dancing & gashing
themselves to a din of Flutes, cymbals & drums.


1774 - Asked on his deathbed if his mind is at ease Oliver
Goldsmith, 45, replies: "No it is not."

1802 - Dorothea Dix lives, Hampden, Maine.

             We All Are Born Mad.
                   Some Remain So.

Reformist, who called attention to "the present state of
Insane Persons confined . . . in cages, closets, cellars,
stalls, pens! Chained, naked, beaten with rods, & lashed
into obedience!"

1812 -- England: Luddite Riots at Stockport;
Mr Goodwin's steam-looms destroyed.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/SpanSoft/labourer.txt

1846 - Lautreamont lives, Montevideo. In French, see Raoul
Vaneigem's "Isidore Ducasse et le Comte de Lautréamont dans
les Poésies," http://www.nothingness.org/SI/RV/ducasse.html

1892 - Jules Thomas (1839-1892) dies. A French Icarien,
Parisian Communard, Blanquist. A Communard who fled to NY
with the defeat of the Paris Commune. Became an
anarchist following his reading of Peter Kropotkin.
See “Daily Bleed” page,
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/JulesThomas.htm

1894 -- France: In Paris during the trial of Emile Henry a bomb
explodes at the Foyot restaurant.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sinners/HenryEmile.htm

1896 - Playwright Robert E. Sherwood (“The Petrified
Forest; Abe Lincoln in Illinois”) lives, New Rochelle,
New York.

1896 - Tristan Tzara, French poet/essayist known mainly as
the founder of Dada, lives, Moinesti, Romania.
  http://www.peak.org/~dadaist/English/Graphics/tzara.html
  http://www.mital-u.ch/Dada/index.html
  http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/

1913 - Edward Dowden dies in Dublin, Ireland. Shakespeare
critic, Shelley scholar, Whitman discoverer & friend.

1914 - Marguerite Duras lives (1914-1996), Gia Dinh,
Indochina (Vietnam). French novelist, representative
of “nouveau roman”, screenwriter, scenarist, playwright,
& film director, internationally known for her screenplays
of “Hiroshima Mon Amour”, directed by Alain Resnais
(1959) & “India Song”.

She was also member of the French Resistance during German
occupation. Other titles include “The Sea Wall; The
Ravishing of Lol Stein ; Destroy, She Said”.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/duras.htm

1914 - Unemployed riot in Union Square, NYC.

1915 -- Blues guitarist Muddy Waters lives.
http://www.blueflamecafe.com/Muddy_Waters.html
http://www.muddywaters.com/

1915 -- A blurb in the New York Times (April 4, 1915)
lists a petition of bankruptcy filed against John Rompapas
Books & Postcards at 325 Madison Street in New York.

           John Rompapas founded the Rabelais Press, a
           New York radical publishing house that funded the
           Revolutionary Almanac, a journal edited by the
           notorious anarchist, Hippolyte Havel.

http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/yeann3.htm
http://www.geocities.com/athens/acropolis/5422/report.html

1928 - Maya Angelou lives, St. Louis, Missouri. African-
American poet whose autobiographical work explores
economic, racial, & sexual oppression themes.
http://ucaswww.mcm.uc.edu/worldfest/about.html

1945 -- Daniel Cohn-Bendit lives to laugh at cops,
Montaubanin (the south of France).
 http://www.tao.ca/1968/bendit.html
 http://www.pitzer.edu/~dward/Anarchist_Archives/bright/Bendit/benditbio.html

 http://www.el-mundo.es/larevista/num132/textos/fue2.html

1955 - Australia & UK agree to establish nuclear testing
ground, Maralinga, South Australia.

1957 - The original Internet Literary Calendar creator
(1995), Timothy Ervin, lives, with little fanfare.
http://litcal.yasuda-u.ac.jp/LitCalendar.shtml
http://litcal.yasuda-u.ac.jp/pteindex.html

1958 - England: 4,000 begin first of what would become
eleven consecutive annual Easter protest marches from
London to Aldermaston AWRE spy base in England.

1964 - Billboard reports "just about everyone is tired of
Beatles...  -- except the listening & buying public."

1967 - Martin Luther King, Jr., preaches against  Vietnam
War & calls for common cause between civil rights &
anti-war movements, Riverside Church, New York City.
http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/vietnam.html

1968 - Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., 39, shot & killed
in Memphis while visiting city in support of striking
sanitation workers during Poor People's Campaign.

Exactly a year ago, addressing a huge anti-war rally he
called the U.S. government (quote):

   "The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today."

This radical condemnation of U.S. foreign policy earned
King the disfavor of many civil-rights moderates & the
government. After today's assassination, African Americans
will revolt in more than a hundred U.S. cities.

The government will deploy 75,000 National Guard troops.
When the smoke clears, 39 people will be dead & 2,500
injured.

http://www.triadntr.net/~rdavis/mlkbirm.htm

1969 - US: CBS-TV touches off censorship controversy by its
cancellation of  the irreverent & anti-war "The Smothers
Brothers Comedy Hour."

1969 - US: April 4-6, demonstrations on the anniversary of
Martin Luther King's death & anti-war protests: Chicago;
Memphis, 10,000 gather to pay tribute; NY, 20,000+ up Fifth
Ave, some with "33,000" armbands (explain? Also, is this
the Bryant Park demo?)

1975 - "Operation Babylift" began as a Lockheed C-5A
transport left Saigon's Ton Son Nhut Airport carrying the
first of 2,000 South Vietnamese orphans to a new life in
America.  Minutes after takeoff, the plane crashes in a rice
paddy; approximately 140 of the children & some 50 adults
were killed.

              What wonderful people these Americans!
              Giving their all to help these poor orphans. One
              needs only forget how they became orphans -- what
              disaster has beset these crippled, maimed &
              homeless, what people, what nation, what
              government could have allowed -- God forbid,
              perpetrated -- such "disaster"?

              Perhaps, in the name of putting the past
              behind us, reconciliation, we can move
              forward, without memory, having learned
              nothing.

              http://www.adoptvietnam.org/adoption/babylift.htm

1977 - British CBS releases the Clash's self-titled first
album, a 14 song which contains such punk battle cries as
"White Riot," "Police & Thieves" & "London's Burning."

CBS in the U.S. refuses to release it until 1979 & even then
will get rid of the more virulent songs. Meantime, Americans
will buy 100,000 imported copies of  “"The Clash"“, making it
one of the biggest-selling import records of all time.

1984 - Oceania: Winston Smith opens his journal.

     It doesn't look good for our hero.
     Thankfully, he has Big Brother to
     help him through his difficult times.

1985 - US: Congress rejects Beloved & Respected Comrade
Leader Reagan's appeal for support for Nicaragua contras.
His administration provides aid illegally.

              Reagan's administration takes to the high ground,
          staking out the low ground. Rife with moral
          neuters & criminals from top to bottom, it secretly
          provides illegal aid. Involves the White House, the
          CIA, the military & various other government
          departments.

          Apparently one must destroy
          democracy to preserve democracy...

1996 - Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir & Jerry Garcia's
widow, Deborah, scatter part of Garcia's ashes in the
Ganges River in India.

When in Seattle, you DeadHeads you, The Blue Moon
Tavern, has Dead Nite once a week -- nothing but
Dead Tunes all nite long – Sundays! (or twice a week if you
count Monday Opera Night as a dead nite too).
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mleone/dead.html



"I had been . . . crossing & recrossing the
line between sanity & madness so many times that
I had all but rubbed it out."
 --Corwin, Prince of Amber, in The Guns of Avalon,
by Roger Zelazny

"I can see that you have a lot to unlearn."

"If you are talking about my vulgar instinct for survival,
forget it."
--Hugi; Corwin, Prince of Amber, in The Courts of Chaos,
Roger Zelazny

" . . . the issue is not whether you're paranoid . . . The
issue is whether you're paranoid enough."

        --Max, in Strange Days

"If you hadn't screwed up my past, your future wouldn't be
like this." --Bill Watterson as Calvin (8:30) to Calvin (6:30)

"I let my mind wander and it didn't come back." --Bill
Watterson as Calvin

"It's not denial. I'm just very selective about the reality
I accept." --Bill Watterson as Calvin


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