Ralph R's just kicked the bucket,see ...http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=02/04/04/7217447 The Mofo's? http://www.primitivism.com/situationism.htm Whats bleeding? 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. 1846 - Lautreamont lives, Montevideo. In French, see Raoul Vaneigem's "Isidore Ducasse et le Comte de Lautriamont dans les Poisies," 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.
