Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 13:49:38 -0700
Subject: Daily Bleed: 4/30 FELIX GUATTARI


Web version: http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0430.htm

APRIL 30

FELIX GUATTARI
Innovative theorist of Capitalism & Schizophrenia.

WALPURGISNACHT. Witches, warlocks & demons hold revels in
Harz Mountains. Whole towns rush into streets, making as much
noise as possible. Church bells ring, bonfires are lit. In British
Isles, a scapegoat is chosen by lots and burned, hobby horse parades
are held, chasing evil away until Mid-summer's Night.

VIKING FEAST OF SPRING.

HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY.

MAY EVE: Eve may.

Of Man's first disobedience, & the fruit
Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste
Brought death into the world, & all our woe.

 — Milton, “Paradise Lost”
http://www.geneletter.org/0996/adameve.htm


535 - Nice Guy Award?: Theodahad, King of the Ostrogoths,
has his wife Amalasuntha, daughter of Justinian, Emperor
of the East, strangled.

1713 - Alexander Pope, writes a friend about the success of
Joseph Addison's play “Cato”, for which Pope himself has
supplied the prologue: "The town is so fond of it that the
orange wenches & fruit women in the park offer the books
on the side of the coaches, & the prologue & epilogue
are cried about the streets by the common hawkers."
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~wendyjc/pope/popehp.html

1771 - American utopianist leader Hosea Ballou lives.

1803 - US: Louisiana was purchased from France, at four
cents per acre.

1844 - Thoreau accidentally burns 300 acres of forest near
Concord, Massachusetts during a fishing trip, causing
$2,000 in damages.
http://killdevilhill.com/waldenpondchat/wwwboard.html

1859 - Just a Pawn in the Game?: The brilliant Paul Morphy
returns from 10-month chess tour of Europe, retires. He has
inspired numerous stories, movies, novels, etc, as the mad
genius chess master -- it is said he challenged God to a game
& even offered a pawn advantage. Don't know who won.

1865 - Max Nettlau lives (1865-1944), in Neuwaldegg, a
suburb of Vienna. Austrian anarchist, historian, bibliographer,
philologist.
http://www.pitzer.edu/~dward/Anarchist_Archives/bright/nettlau/nettlau.htm

1871 - Gettin' Civilized?: Mob massacres more than 100
Apaches who had placed themselves under U.S. protection
at Camp Grant, Arizona.

1877 - Get Anything You Want, Where?: Alice B. Toklas lives
(1877-1967), San Francisco. American literary figure & close
associate of author Gertrude Stein, her secretary, cook, &
confidante in Paris in her literary salon. Wrote “The Alice B.
Toklas Cookbook”, 1954, “What is Remembered”, 1963.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/toklas.htm

1883 - Jaroslav Hašek lives (1883-1923), Prague. Czech
novelist, anarchist, humorist, Bolshevik, story writer,
journalist.

Early in his career an active anarchist. A drunk, a
dog-stealer, & a cook who calculatedly pretended to
commit suicide & invented animals which did not exist
while editing the serious magazine "The
Animal World".  Wrote a four-volume novel,
“The Good Soldier Schweik”, acclaimed
as one of the greatest satires in world literature.
http://burn.ucsd.edu/~anow/ppl/wri/index.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hasek.htm

1887 - Ireland: Black Rain at Castle Common.

                    I'm just a little black rain cloud
                    Hovering under your honey tree,
                    Only a little black rain cloud,
                    Pay no attention to little me.

http://www.geocities.com/ohtoad/LittleBlackRain.html

1888 - All Hail!?: Hailstones kill 246 in Moradabad, India.

1895 - French-Canadian doctor-novelist, Philippe Panneton,
who portrays people caught in the transition from primitive
rural to modern urban life, lives.

1899 - US: Coeur d'Alene, Idaho miner's strike, 1,200
workers arrested, put into specially erected bullpens until
the strikes are broken.

In 1892, area mine workers launched a generation of deadly
warfare against armed & deputized strikebreakers.

This year, with mine owners refusing to recognize
unions & wildcat strikers dynamiting mines, Governor
Frank Steunenberg declared parts of Idaho were "in a
state of insurrection & rebellion."

Under martial law, President McKinley sent federal troops.

Steunenberg was a man of modest means before election, but
he left office rich, thanks to -- surprisingly -- the mining
companies.

1903 - Simone Larcher lives (true name Rachel Willissek)
(1903-1969), in Oise. French anarchist, proofreader,
antimilitarist.. With her companion, Louis Louvet,
she publishes the newspaper "L'anarchie", which
continues until 1929. See the Anarchist Encyclopedia,
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sinners/LarcherSimone.htm

1922 - Poet A. E. Housman dies at 77. On his deathbed, his
doctor tells him a dirty joke. Housman replies: "Yes, that's a
good one, & tomorrow I shall be telling it on the
Golden Floor."“
http://library.utoronto.ca/www/utel/rp/authors/housman.html

1930 - Radical anti-psychiatrist, anti-capitalist Felix
Guattari lives, Paris.

1944 - Last day of April:

"Rainy days, I generally sat in a dry place & read a book,
often just an axe length away from a ping-pong table. The
training course lasted three weeks, ending on a Saturday,
a very rainy one...I remember standing at an end
window of our Quonset hut for a very long time, looking
out at the slanting, dreary rain, my trigger
finger itching imperceptibly, if at all...Then, after
synchronizing my wristwatch with the clock in the
latrine, I walked down the long, wet cobblestone hill into
town. I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me.
They either had your number on them or they
didn't."

(It appears the last day of April 1944 is a Sunday, but J.
D.Salinger's short story, "For Esmé, With Love &
Squalor," gives it here & in the final letter from Esmé as
Saturday.)

1945 - Germany: Nazis Eva Braun & hubby, Adolf,  most
probably commit suicide, Berlin.

1948 - US Rubber Stamp Day?: Organization of American
States founded.

1950 - Italy: Founding of the Confederazione Italiana
Sindacati Laboratori (CISU).

1957 - Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Vice-President
Dick M Nixon receives an award from the Anti-Defamation
League of the B'nai Brith. Pretty funny for a guy who
hated Jews.

1966 - Two days after the publication of his book “Been
Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me”, folksinger/novelist
Richard Fariña is killed in a motorcycle accident after a
promotional party, Carmel, California.
http://www.xvt.com/users/kevink/phreno.html

1966 - US: Havasupai tribe in Grand Canyon reject BIA
proposal to "modernize" tribal town of Supai, Arizona
with roads, chairlift & helicopter service.

1969 - 543,000 US soldiers are in South Vietnam making war.

1970 - Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Dick M
Nixon announces U.S. troops, supposedly seeking out a supreme
Communist command post known as "COSVN," had invaded
Cambodia. It was a total fabrication, & even Mel Laird &
Hank Kissinger went ballistic over this one. 30,000 US
troops & 40,000+ South Vietnamese troops
involved. This US action set the scene for Pol Pot to take
over Cambodia.

1972 - US: 1,000 rally on Mercer Island, Washington to
protest Soviet mistreatment of Jews.

1973 - Nixon announces resignation of Haldeman, Ehrlichman,
et al.

      "Two of the finest public servants I have ever known."

1975 - Miss Saigon?: Vietnam defeats the US. while
Republicans are at the helm. North Vietnamese troops enter
Saigon. Vietnam is reunited after 30 years of resistance to
U.S. domination & 100 years of French colonial misrule.

1977 - Argentina: The organization of the mothers of Plaza
de Mayo founded.
http://www.patriagrande.net/uruguay/eduardo.galeano/memoria.del.fuego/19770430.htm

1983 - Muddy Waters dies of a heart attack. He was 68 years
old.

1986 - West Germany: First use of CS gas against
anti-nuclear demonstrators, Wackersdorf.

1986 - Ashrita Furman performs 8,341 somersaults over 12
miles before flipping out.
http://www.xvt.com/users/kevink/balls/

1991 - George Sperti Sperti inventor (Preparation H), dies
at 91.

Queried on his death bed as to his immortal last words, he
snorted: "You know where to stick that."

1996 - US: About 120 activists arrested over the next eight
days in Washington, D.C., in support of a White House
fast by Sister Diana Ortiz. Ortiz was kidnapped, tortured,
& raped by US-trained & supported Guatemalan Army
officers in 1989; she was fasting to demand that the US
government release information on her
assailants.

1998 - Danish strike enters 4th day. Yesterday a national
meeting of shop stewards took place in Odense with the
participation of 1200 people. The meeting agreed the
formation of national & local coordinating committees
to organise the running of the strike.

1998 - Linda Alband, bon vivant, hits the big 50.

1999 - Linda Alband, bon vivant, turns 49.

2000 -  Linda Alband, bon vivant, turns 45.

2001 -  Linda Alband, bon vivant, turns 40.


Anti-CopyRite 2001