.............AUTUMN SPECIAL...........Fall (in the
Northern Hemisphere)
A few of this Month's
Anniversaries, Birthdays etc:
2 - 
Gandhi's
Birthday & Groucho Marx's
- Duchamp, French painter, sculptor etc, associated with Dada,
died 1968, aged 81.
3 -William Morris, textile
designer, poet, artist, novelist, architectural conservationist, printer,
translator and socialist activist, died
1896, aged 62.
6 - LSD outlawed (1966)
7 - Nuclear accident at Windscale, now known as Sellafield
(1957)
- R.D.Laing born (1927)
"Life is a sexually transmitted disease
and the mortality rate is one hundred percent."
"If I could turn you on, if I could drive you out of your wretched
mind, if I could tell you, I would let you know."
- 'The Bird of Paradise' (this quotation from R.D.Laing itself
quotes, without acknowledgement, W.H. Auden's 'Villanelle')
- Desmond Tutu born 1931
Died 26 Dec. 2021.
8 - Algerian-French Philosopher Jacques Derrida died (2004)
11 - Thích Nhất Hạnh, known as Thay
(Vietnamese for teacher) born 1926, Vietnamese Buddhist monk, considered
Zen
Master, peace activist, coined terms “engaged buddhism” & “interbeing”
Click pic?
12 - 202 people were killed & 209 injured in a terrorist
attack on the tourist district of the Indonesian island of Bali (12th October 2002): Bombing in Bali
- Ralph Vaughan Williams,
British Composer, born (1872).
Hark: 'The Lark Ascending'...
Music to
transport you heavenwards!
Not sure how that cat would get
on with the Lark!
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13 - Thatcher's Birthday 
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- Sir Thomas Browne, born 1605, died 1682
(nicely, precisely timed!), polymath &
writer. Here’s a richly rhetorical, eloquent
quotation from Urn Burial.
21 - Aberfan Disaster, 1966
24 - Adrian Mitchell, poet,
playwright, novelist, born (1932)
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"Royalty is a neurosis. Get well
soon."
"Most people ignore most
poetry because most poetry ignores most people"
"Make love. We must make love / Instead
of making money"
We met & talked 3 times over the years, even performed on same stage
once. I gave him a folder of my work. We drank some wine together. I admired him. |
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24 - Rosa Parks, US Civil Rights
pioneer (refused to give up bus seat to white man, 1955) dies aged 92 (2005)
- cf Gandhi above
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25 - Birthday of
Picasso (1881)
  "Every child is an artist,
the
problem is how to remain
an
artist once he grows up."
-Pablo Picasso
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| - Sylvia Plath's
Birthday (1932) |
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| 28 - Painter, Francis
Bacon,
born 1909 
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31 - 
(trick or treat?)
Fancy a Night Out with Dracula?
