12:05 a.m. Full moon directly overhead sending big light into skylight tubes. Traffic noise horrendous! I lasted mere seconds outside.
Saturday, November 16, 2024
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Friday, November 8, 2024
Cook-Lynn & R.D. Laing
It happened again. I awoke at 11:30 to the call to meds. After going out to the Smirket Room and filling several containers so I wouldn't have to do it again for a few days, I was wide awake.
Now wading in Cook-Lynn's vitriol over America's rascism toward Red skin; she does an admirable job of scathittude.
It makes for perfect bedtime reading...all hatred of hatred and calling out the stupidity (willful ignorance) of academe and The Establishment just as R.D.Laing, Jerry Rubin & Stokely Carmichael did back in our heyday. Ah, those were the good times...when we thought we might change things.
Mom would be scornful...wasting time over useless angst-driven whatever when I could be reading The Steadfást Tin Soldier, The Velveteen Rabbit, or The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf. All of which I read every 20 years or so...just to remind me what it is to be human.
Here's R.D. saYing it more succinctly...
From: The Wing of Madness by Daniel Burston
Thursday, November 7, 2024
Brock Chisholm
Excerpt from The Wing of Madness: the life and work of R.D. Laing by Daniel Burston (Harvard University Press, 1996).
The excerpt below was delivered in a speech by "...Major-General Brock Chisholm, director-general of medical services for the Canadian Army who delivered it during the William Alanson White Memorial Lectures in 1945." (Burston, p. 103)
Harry Stack Sullivan founded the Willian Alanson White Memorial Lectures.
William Alanson White was a neurologist and psychiatrist.
In "Later Life and Advocacy" in The Canadian Encyclopedia, it says...
Chisholm became involved in many peace organizations and wrote for pacifist magazines. Atomic destruction and germ warfare particularly concerned him, and he opposed the idea of Canada acquiring nuclear arms. In 1957, he took part in a meeting of international scientists in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, to discuss the dangers of nuclear arms. This was the first in a series of conferences that would eventually win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995 (see: Pugwash Wins Nobel Prize; Nobel Prizes and Canada). In 1961, Chisholm helped found the Canadian Peace Research Institute. To prevent nuclear war, he advocated for a global government, a global police force and a global legal system.
Turning to the tale of the Pugwash Nobel Peace prize, there's mention of Cyrus Eaton. Now, 55 years after driving up & down Euclid Avenue (to & from work at the Bobbie Brooks factory) and seeing a marquee that read "They thought Cyrus Eaton was a bull shipper" and having no idea then or until now who he was, I can now die with at least that bit of curtiosity saited.
Brock was influenced by Herbert Marcuse
6:20 pm - Thurs 7.Nov.24. - Mayhaps I'll sleep 2nite.
Magao Caves
Somehow I was drawn to my blogpost about Nancy Grossman
The Google Books description of Tough Life Diary mentions...
"blew conventional images of femininity to smithreens," critic Holland Cotter noted.
Cotter's Wiki page led to The Magoa Caves
Cave 96 - Photo from Wiki (unattributed)
...specifically:
"The Library Cave" section.
The "Gallery" section is also interesting.
The 1904 "find" of the Library Cave is detailed in
1:47 a.m. Thurs. Sleepless in Albuq.
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Lee Miller
https://www.liliums-compendium.co.uk/post/lee-miller-muses-the-beau-monde
Lee Miller dehusking corn in the garden of Farleys House, East Sussex, circa 1960. Cooking became a creative outlet for Miller after the horrors of the Second World War (Roland Penrose/Lee Miller Archives)
Monday, November 4, 2024
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