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Aron Hector (“Ettore”) Schmitz (a.k.a. Italo Svevo), novelist, born today in 1861. Svevo was one of James Joyce's first students, when he arrived as a would-be private English teacher in Trieste, and Svevo would later donate both his wife's name (Livia), and her magnificent "plura belle" hair to ALP, the female heroine of Joyce's "Finnegans Wake"; and Joyce in return would donate copy after copy of Svevo's "La coscienza di Zeno" (sometimes translated as "Confessions of Zeno", sometimes as "Zeno's Conscience") to anyone interested in great literature. More on their teacher-pupil, writer-writer friendship here. Read William Weaver's translation of the book without needing to tip (that's a Joyce-joke), here
Jean Genet, French dramatist, born today in 1910
Aloysius (Alois) Alzheimer, German psychiatrist, died today in 1915, still compos mentis by all accounts; and if I have chosen to honour him at the time of his death, it is only because, in most cases, it is at that end of life that his name most frequently gets mentioned.
Well, that's the way most people in the western world would expect me to have written it. Isn't it? But ask yourself, why did a part of China ever belong to Britain anyway? Why does any part of planet Earth ever belong to anyone other than its inhabitants? For one reason only - the people who steal it by conquest want slaves or at least cheap labour, and the opportunity to steal whatever else is there, from agriculture to minerals. Like the regime in Bei-Jing or not, Hong Kong belongs to China, and it is absolutely right and proper that they have it back.
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