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
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