[Daily Bleed]: 10/1 MARSILIO FICINO

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SlackMeister is back!! (so sorry...)

How close the clouds press this October first
& the rain — a gray scarf across the sky.

— Stephen Dobyns, "No Map"

Daily Bleed in full blast mode, 84 entries:
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1001.htm

A few excerpts:

OCTOBER 1-- MARSILIO FICINO
Great Renaissance neo-Platonist & occultist.

Very very very important to remember...

OCTOBER is . . . Auto Battery Safety Month


They who never ruled before
poured from their factory districts
across the bridges of Petrograd
to make October.
The moon was so startled
all global tides
shifted.
The lights went on all over Europe.
Nothing
can ever be the same again.

— Dan Georgakis,
"October Song",

from Three Red Stars, 1975

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1842 -- Charles Cros lives; inventor of the phonograph,
was the most popular poet-singer of this kind in
mid-nineteenth-century Paris, & his poems spoke for a
way of life completely unassimilable by the money-crazy,
hypocritical, debauched, & puritanical society of Louis
Napoleon’s gimcrack Second Empire.

It is out of people like Charles Cros, simple,
sensuous, lyrical, & sarcastic, that poets like
Verlaine come, & all of those that he, Verlaine,
first called “poètes maudits,” the cursed, the
outcast poets, Germain Nouveau, Arthur Rimbaud,
Alfred Jarry, Tristan Corbière, Jean Richepin.

All of these poets are still sung.

— Kenneth Rexroth
"Subversive Aspects of Popular Songs"
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Ency ... enneth.htm

1860 -- US: Decree from Norton I, Emperor of the United
States & Protector of Mexico, bars Congress from meeting
in Washington, D.C.

Damn you got to love this guy!

1867 -- Fernand Pelloutier lives, Paris. Socialist who
became an anarchiste through the influence of Augustin
Hamon.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Ency ... ernand.htm
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Ency ... gustin.htm

1885 -- L'Ordre, by Peter Kropotkin, prefaced by Elisée Reclus,
is first published...
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Ency ... nPeter.htm

1890 -- US Congress passes McKinley Tariff Act, taxing
opium at $10 a lb. if manufactured for smoking.

SMOKE! SMOKE! SMOKE! (THAT CIGARETTE)

Written by Merle Travis for Tex Williams; the release
not only saved Tex Williams' waning career, but also
became Capitol Records' first million-seller.

"I smoked 'em all my life & I ain't dead yet..."

1905 -- 'Wild Beasts', a group of artists including Henri
Matisse, make their debut at the Salon d'Atutomne

1910 -- The Mexican the Libéral party adopts
anarchist slogan, "Tierra y Libertad".

"La terre! criait Bakounine, La terre! criait Ferrer, la
terre! crie la Révolution Mexicaine".

— Ricardo Flores Magón

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Ency ... Flores.htm

1910 -- Canada: Subscribers denied receipt of materials from the
anarchist Mother Earth Books in NY, by order of Canadian authorities,
because of their "treasonable nature." [BleedMeister & treasonous
friends — Stan Iverson, Joy Cameron, Charlie Knox, Paula Silverman,
& others — in Seattle began an anarchist bookstore of the same name,
around 1970, in the fine tradition begun by Emma
Goldman].

1910 -- US: Twenty-one killed when the Los Angeles Times building is
dynamited while embroiled in labor strife. McNamara arrested. Anarchist
involvement is immediately suspected.

1911 -- France: Aguigui Mouna (aka Andre Dupont; 1911-1999) lives. Agitator,
propagandist pacifist, philosophical & individualistic libertarian.

Mixes pacifism & anarchist individualism, dating from 1951. Broke &
on the streets of Paris he discovers his talent as agitator:

"It is while speaking that one
becomes a loudspeaker"

http://edenlife75.over-blog.com/

1918 -- Germany: Oct-Nov, street fighting in Berlin. By
November, full-scale revolution — councils of workers,
soldiers, intellectuals, & artists replace the government.

1924 -- US: In the case of Sacco & Vanzetti the highly
prejudiced Judge Thayer ("Did you see what I did to
those anarchist bastards?") denies all motions for a new trial.

"Give flowers to the rebels who failed."

— Bartolomeo Vanzetti

1925 -- Germany: Anti-Kriegs Museum — the first museum
for peace — founded, Berlin.

1929 -- "Un Chien Andalou" by Bunuel & Dali
screened at Studio 28.

And these
resigned faces,
which once bore
flashes of
desire like ink
splattered on a
wall, were like
shooting stars.
Let gin, rum &
brandy flow like
the Great
Armada. This for
the funeral
oration. But all
those people
were so
commonplace.

1937 -- US: 100,000 mary jane smokers...
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/36558.gif

1949 -- Pacifica Foundation (founded 1946) starts first
radio station, KPFA in Berkeley (April 15 they air their
first show). Founded by Lewis Hill, poet, pacifist & journalist.

1968 -- e1 to e4?: Surrealist artist Marcel Duchamp dies,
Neuilly, Paris. Gave up art for chess.

1968 -- US: The House Committee on Un-American Activities
convenes hearings to plumb the extent of Communist subversion
in the Convention Week protests in Chicago.

1989 -- US: A Real Boner? US issues stamp, labeling an Apatosaurus
a Brontosaurus.

1991 -- Italy: Six "antiauthoritarian" evenings with the Living Theatre,
at the Teatro Porta Romana in Milan (October 1-6th).
http://www.livingtheatre.org/

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"We live in a decaying age.

Young people no longer respect
their parents.

They are rude & impatient.

They frequently inhabit taverns
& have no self control."

— Inscription, 6000 year-old Egyptian tomb
(quoted in R. Buckminster Fuller's
I Seem to be a Verb).

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