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Our Daily Bleed...
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In summer's mellow midnight,
A cloudless moon shown through
Our open parlour window
And rosetrees wet with dew.
Charlotte Bronte, The Night-Wind, September 11, 1840
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SEPTEMBER 11
FITZ HUGH LUDLOW
The Hashish Eater, an American Thomas De Quincy.
ETHIOPIAN NEW YEAR: (Diocletian era) Celebrated by giving bunches of
flowers picnicking in fields of daffodils.
Hungary: HARVEST FESTIVAL.
Diocletian New Year, 1711
-- WRENCH IN THE WORKS DAY.
1227 -- Plague strikes the 5th Crusade, of Fredrick II, ending it. (F)Red is
shocked. He was advised by Beloved Respected Comrade Leader Pat
Robertson the plague would hit Orlando.
1589 -- Barbara Huebmeyer, Appela Huebmeyer Anna Schnelling burned as witches.
1762 -- Writer Joanna Baillie lives.
1773 -- Benjamin Franklin writes,
There never was a good war or bad peace.
1812 -- Luddite Potato riot in Nottingham, England.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/6576/
http://www.fun1st.com/
http://www.mshamash.com/spud/spudgun1.html
1841 -- All members of Beloved Respected Comrade Leader President John Tyler's
cabinet resigns, with the
exception of Daniel Webster, who stayed on to finish negotiating a treaty. The
resignations came after Tyler vetoed a banking bill sponsored by Beloved Respected
Comrade Whig Leader
Henry Clay, an affront for which he was literally read out of his own party.
1861 -- Juhani Aho lives (1861-1921). Journalist the first Finnish professional
writer, best known Finnish author in Scandinavia in his own time, who specialized in
short stories called lastuja (splinters).
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jaho.htm
1862 -- O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) lives, Greensboro, North Carolina. American
author, jailbird, master of the short story surprise ending.
Started a humorous weekly The Rolling Stone in 1894.
After release from prison for embezzlement as a bank teller, he writes such stories as
The Gift of the Magi The Last Leaf. Vachel Lindsay compliments him:
He always worked a triple-hinged surprise / To end the scene make one rub his eyes.
Published 10 collections over 600 short stories during his life time. Despite the
popularity his last years were shadowed by alcoholism, ill health financial problems.
http://www.dcr.state.nc.us/nc/ncsites/greensbo/O_henry.htm
1862 --
1862
Joshua Norton I, Dei Gratia Emperor of the United States Protector of Mexico, He
Demands Suitable Attire
WHEREAS, avaricious persons others are conspiring against our person, right
dignity by refusing to supply us with suitable clothing, although repeatedly requested
to do so; WHEREAS, the national dignity rights are
thereby injured; NOW, THEREFORE, we command that you proceed on receipt of this our
decree forthwith to the tailors, Walter Tompkins, on Montgomery Street of this city,
then there proceed to take the rivets out of
their shears prohibit any person from repairing them or furnish them with new ones
until they shall furnish us with our clothing, which they have long ago been requested
to do.
Given under our hand this 11th day of September, 1862.
http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/nort.html
http://www.notfrisco.com/nortoniana/
1885 -- Novelist, poet, essayist D. H. Lawrence lives, Nottingham, England.
D. H. LAWRENCE
1998 Saint. Passionate explicit moralist of religious, sexual rebirth.
...Lawrence really was the educated son of a coal miner, sitting under a tree that
was rapidly becoming part of a world-wide, disemboweled hell, writing hard, painful
poems, to girls who carefully had been taught the ar
t of unlove...
Kenneth Rexroth, Bird in the Bush
Best known for his book Lady Chatterly's Lover, wherein the Lady takes up an interest
in pruning. The book was banned for a time in both the UK the U.S. as pornographic.
In the UK it was published in unexpurgated form i
n 1960 after a obscenity trial.
http://users.aol.com/mikeb1/rexroth/classicsall.html
http://www.bibliomania.com/Fiction/dhl/index.html
1893 -- 443 Hoh Indians move to new reservation established on coast of Olympic
Peninsula, Washington state.
1895 -- India: Vinoba Bhave, land reformer, lives.
1901 -- Katri Vala lives (1901-1944). Finnish poet, critic, school teacher, central
member of the literary group Tulenkantajat (The Fire Bearers). Vala also wrote poems
that were radical in the social views attacked war
Fascism.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jaho.htm
1903 -- Frankfort School theorist Theodor Adorno lives.
Rather than subject, nature became object, made alien. Men pay for the increase of
their power with alienation from that over which they exercised their power. The quest
for knowledge power becomes war against nature, m
an declares war upon himself.
The body becomes both machine (a tool in the process of production advancement)
the animal body the subject of experiment, control, vivisection. In the process of
turning nature into substance matter,
