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In Krazy Kat the poetry
originated from a certain lyrical stubbornness in the author, who
repeated his tale ad infinitum, varying it always but sticking to its
theme. It was thanks only to this that the mouse's arrogance, the
dog's unrewarded compassion, and the cat's desperate love could arrive
at what many critics felt was a genuine state of poetry, an
uninterrupted elegy based on sorrowing innocence. Umberto Eco, philologist and writer ...after World War II, when I came home, Krazy
Kat became my hero. I had never seen Krazy Kat up until then
because neither one of the papers in the Twin cities published it, so
I didn't know Krazy Kat. But then it became my ambition to draw
a strip that would have as much life and meaning and subtlety to it as
Krazy Kat had. An immediate progenitor of the Beat Generation
and its roots could be traced back to the glee of America, the honesty
of America, its wild, self-believing individuality. 'Tis not strange to see this land |
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This is the year of jubilee; and this the
jubilee month of this jubilee year. The official dictum has gone forth
from the conquered land of William the Robber, that the people of
Australia shall join in holding a jubilee in commemoration of the fiftieth
year of the reign of the present representative of English tyranny.
Illuminations are being displayed, loyal demonstrations devised, money
recklessly squandered – and all for what? Loyal cant says: To express
the happiness of the people. Honesty says: To bolster up a tottering
tyranny at the expense of the wretched slaves whom our barbarous system
holds in subjection.
The people of Australia are jubilating – are they? Jubilating
over what? Are they jubilating over the terrible fact that their three
million square miles of land are, for the most part, held in enforced
idleness by the villainous monopoly over which the State keeps guard? Are
they jubilating because thousands of would-be willing workers are
wandering about the streets in search of employment? Are they jubilating
because the workers, who constitute by far the larger portion of our
population of two and a half millions, are only in receipt of a very small
portion of the wealth which they alone produce?
An Australian perspective on Queen Victoria's
Jubilee, 1887; 'The Jubilee', Editorial, probably by DA Andrade, in
Honesty, June 1887
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in leap years), with 194
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Hogueras de San Juan: the bonfires
of St John, Alicante, Spain (Jun 20 - 28)
In Alicante, in the southern part of the Land of Valencia, Spain, bonfires involving truly artistic monuments, with figures satirising local people, are set up at this time and burned in a ceremony known as the crema.
Today's activities began in 1928 (thanks to Jose María Py, a man who loved Alicante, who saw that this city did not have a significant fiesta and he liked the Valencian festival: the Fallas), with their origins dating back centuries and even millennia to pagan pre-Christian times, as is the case with Winter and Summer Solstice bonfire events all over the world. The festivities begin with the pregón (proclamation), following which huge satirical monuments of papier mâché and wood are set up all over the city tonight. On the night of June 24 (St John's Day), known in Alicante as the Nit del Foc, following a huge palmera (a firework display that can be seen all over the city) at St Barbara Castle, the monuments are fuel for the cremà. Alicante hosts something like 200 bonfires and burning monuments, which are also customarily used to dispose of old furniture.
Several cavalcades
parade through the city, including the Cabalgata del Foc,
representing the cult of fire in different periods; the Coso Infantil,
in which costumed children take part; the multicoloured Cos with a
'flower battle', serpents and confetti. The inhabitants of the city
have a parade of bands as well as a folklore demonstration, in which the
different regions of the province are represented.
All over the city are parades, processions,
bullfights, musical performances, and sports events, as well as a firework
competition and various religious rites, outstanding among which is the
floral offering to Mary, the Virgin del Remedio, Patroness – and
Mayoress – of the city of Alicante.
Juas, in grotesque caricature of this or
that public person, are large cloth figures filled with sawdust, paper and
similar materials. These are set alight at the climax of the festival at
midnight on June
23.
Alicante's San Juan festival continues until June 29,
overlapping with the Feast of San Pedro (St Peter), featuring
colourful processions, fantastic fireworks and revelling in the popular barracas,
makeshift fiesta houses in which locals and visitors are all welcome to
join in the celebrations.
Another well-known festival in Alicante is Moros i Cristians in any quarter of the city, such as Altozano or St Blase.
The city is the headquarters of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market.
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