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You will always be a hyena ..." etc., protests the devil who crowned me with such pleasant poppies.
"Attain death with all your appetites, your selfishness and all the capital sins! Arthur Rimbaud, French boy-poet, born on October 20, 1854; 'A Season in Hell' rimbaud. no more the daring young horseman of high abyssinian plateau. such ardor is petrified forever. Patti Smith; 'rimbaud dead' Go Rimbaud Go Rimbaud Go Rimbaud and go Johnny go! Patti Smith; 'Horses' Situations have ended sad, Relationships have all been bad, Mine have been like Verlaine and Rimbaud … Bob Dylan; 'You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go' Rimbaud ... very simply tried to take the pretentions of poetry seriously and to re-form art so that it could alter the meaning of reality. He decided this was a hoax and activity beneath the dignity of grown men ... However, he almost succeeded, and poetry will never be the same again. Kenneth Rexroth, American poet; Classics Revisited He [Sir Richard Burton, died October 20, 1890] was, as has been well said, an Elizabethan born out of time; in the days of Drake his very faults might have counted to his credit. Encyclopćdia Britannica, 11th edition Before middle age, he [Sir Richard Burton]
compressed into his life more of study, more of hardship, and more of successful enterprise and adventurer, than would have sufficed to fill up the existence of half a dozen ordinary
men. I know nothing about my soul, I get on very well without one. It is rather hard to inflict a soul on me in the decline of my life. [Debs is] ... a lawbreaker at large, and enemy of the human race ... Debs should be jailed, if there are jails in his neighborhood, and the disorder his bad teaching has engendered must be squelched. |
A Parallel of some of the Principal Towers and Steeples built by Sir Christopher Wren
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… remember, america
eugene debs said he would not
lead you into paradise if he could,
because if he could lead you in,
someone else could lead you out, that
was the text you ought to have
listened to, that was the text you
ought to have believed, instead you
bought a world free for democracy
and you bought a return to normalcy,
and you bought a new deal, and four
freedoms (freedoms you might only
have, anyhow, if you look deep inside
yourself where all freedom is to be
found, and not with rockwell hands so
carefully and badly drawn . . .and then
america they will be unnumbered for you, america)
america yes the square deal and the
new frontier ...
Joel Oppenheimer, excerpt, '17-18 April, 1961'; from Walter
Lowenfels, Poets of Today: A New American Anthology
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
DH Lawrence; Classical American Literature, 1922. On October 20, 1960, Penguin Books was prosecuted in England for publishing the unexpurgated text of Lawrence's novel,
Lady Chatterley's Lover
One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it's too late.
Pablo Picasso, October 20, 1963
All the way with LBJ.
Cheer of approval by Australian Prime Minister Harold
Holt, during the visit of US President Lyndon Baines
Johnson, whose trip to Australia began on October 20, 1966
You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if
properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
Lyndon Baines Johnson
I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.
Dr Joyce Brothers, American popular psychologist, born on October 20,
1928
Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.
Dr Joyce Brothers
Trust your hunches ... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. Warning! Do not confuse your hunches
with wishful thinking. This is the road to disaster.
Dr Joyce Brothers
When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all.
Dr Joyce Brothers
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted person in another person's life.
Dr Joyce Brothers
When you're swimmin' in the creek
And an eel bites your cheek
That's a moray.
Fabulous Furry Freak
Brothers; no relation to Dr Joyce Brothers
I've a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.
Groucho Marx, of the Marx Brothers; no relation to Dr Joyce Brothers
I ran out of gas! I got a flat tire! I locked my keys in the car! An old friend came in from out of town! I lost my tux at the cleaners! Someone stole
my car! There was an earthquake! A terrible flood! Locusts! It wasn't my fault!
Jake Blues, played by John
Belushi, in The Blues Brothers (movie); no relation to Dr Joyce
Brothers
It's 106 miles to Chicago; we got a full tank of gas and half a pack of
cigarettes; it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses. HIT IT.
Elwood Blues (Dan
Aykroyd), The Blues Brothers (movie); no relation to Dr Joyce
Brothers
October 20
is
the 293rd
day of the year in the Gregorian
Calendar (294th in leap years), with 72
days remaining.
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Birth of the Báb, holiday in celebration of the birth of the Báb, Bahá'í Faith
On October 20, Bahá'ís around the world celebrates the Birth of the Báb, 'the Gate', the title assumed by Siyyid 'Ali-Muhammad. It is one of eleven Holy Days in the Bahá'í calendar.
The Báb is often referred to as the Herald of the Bahá'í Faith, because it was His mission to prepare the way for Bahá'u'lláh, the Founder of the Bahá'í Faith. Siyyid 'Alí-Muhammad was the son of Siyyid Muhammad-Ridá, a mercer of Shíráz, and Fátimih-Bagum. Both parents were descendants of the Prophet Muhammad.
Pictured:
Shrine of the Báb at night from above in Haifa,
Israel.
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