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The San Francisco call, November 23, 1902
To Autumn
O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stain’d
With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit
Beneath my shady roof; there thou may’st rest,
And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe,
And all the daughters of the year shall dance!
Sing now the lusty song of fruits and flowers.
The narrow bud opens her beauties to
The sun, and love runs in her thrilling veins;
Blossoms hang round the brows of Morning, and
Flourish down the bright cheek of modest Eve,
Till clust’ring Summer breaks forth into singing,
And feather’d clouds strew flowers round her head.
The spirits of the air live in the smells
Of fruit; and Joy, with pinions light, roves round
The gardens, or sits singing in the trees.”
Thus sang the jolly Autumn as he sat,
Then rose, girded himself, and o’er the bleak
Hills fled from our sight; but left his golden load.
By William Blake, 1783
A Harvest Festival (A Dancing Bacchante at Harvest Time) by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema - 1880
"Rattle and Smoke Dance"
'Johannes Lerii's account of Caraibes Indians with rattles dancing and smoking pipes' 1593 engraving by Theodor de Bry's. Theodor de Bry reproduced 'Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues' painting from his 1564 expedition to Florida located by present day Jacksonville.
'Johannes Lerii's account of Caraibes Indians with rattles dancing and smoking pipes' 1593 engraving by Theodor de Bry's. Theodor de Bry reproduced 'Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues' painting from his 1564 expedition to Florida located by present day Jacksonville.
"Turkish Submarine Hashish Smoking Hookah" circa 1908
"Turkish submariners tradition were allowed to smoke hashish off duty. However officers on duty were getting stoned so they invented this ingenious device to funnel the resultant smoke into the exhaust outlet of the submarine. Located at Juan's Cafe del fuego in Dorrigo NSW" c.1908
“Barefoot Turkish Navy Sailors” World War I Era
The students of an Ottoman naval school during gymnastics, Istanbul
"Turkish submariners tradition were allowed to smoke hashish off duty. However officers on duty were getting stoned so they invented this ingenious device to funnel the resultant smoke into the exhaust outlet of the submarine. Located at Juan's Cafe del fuego in Dorrigo NSW" c.1908
“Barefoot Turkish Navy Sailors” World War I Era
The students of an Ottoman naval school during gymnastics, Istanbul
"If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord."
- Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach
Bach's Musical Bitch Slap
Concert master of King August of Saxony in 1717, Jean Baptiste Volumier, had a problem...
It was all the rage for the elite to have the best musicians playing at your court and parties, King August considered his to be the best.
Hearing of a harpsichordist named Louis Marchand wowing audiences all over France, the King invited him to play for his court.
In his performance, Marchand captivated the gathered elite. So good was the performance that the King offered him a generous offer to stay on his court...
Having new competition didn't sit well with Volumier, a musical smack down was in order...
Volumier, being a violinist, was not able to directly challenge the piano playing Marchand. What to do? Volumier sends for his buddy, his buddy just happened to be Bach...
“nanny-goat bassoon player”
- Johann Sebastian Bach's insult to a bassoon player he pulled a sword on and tried to duel in his 20's!
Not a stranger to musical smack down Johann Sebastian Bach, who would become known as a master, came at once.
Hiding, Bach listened to one of Marchand's performances. At the after party reception, not impressed, Bach and crew approached Marchand...
Bach's call to action? A Duel...
Not just any duel, a musical duel of crafty delight...
In a letter outlining the rules, it would be a dueling piano showdown for the ages... In a series of musical tasks, they would duel back and forth. The events would including themes to improvise and styles to imitate called out by the opposing player...
Marchand would accept the duel with Bach and the stage was set for a event for the centuries...
The Day of the duel arrived, as the elite were gathering, Marchand fearing humiliation boarded a stagecoach. This stagecoach would flee the city leaving Marchand in shame and Volumier a happy man...
Bach the victor, performed an impromptu set for the gathered elite, stunning the crowd to spread the tale.
Albert Einstein playing piano with pipe
Known as a master composer, for classics such Toccata and Fugue in D Minor here...
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho9rZjlsyYY
Johann Sebastian Bach also dabbed his pen in poetry. Although never claimed publicly, poems such as this little diddy have bore his name...
Whene’re I take my pipe and stuff it
And smoke to pass the time away,
My thoughts as I sit there and puff it,
Dwell on a picture sad and grey:
It teaches me that very like
Am I myself unto my pipe.
Like me, this pipe so fragrant burning
Is made of naught but earth and clay;
To earth I too shall be returning.
It falls and, ere I’d think to say,
It breaks in two before my eyes;
In store for me a like fate lies.
No stain the pipe’s hue yet doth darken;
It remains white. Thus do I know
That when to death’s call I must harken
My body too, all pale will grow
To black beneath the sod ’twill turn.
Or when the pipe is fairly glowing,
Behold then, instantaniously,
The smoke off into thin air going,
Till naught but ash is left to see.
Man’s frame likewise away will burn
And unto dust his body turn.
How oft it happens when one’s smoking:
The stopper’s missing from the shelf,
And one goes with one’s finger poking
Into the bowl and burns oneself.
If in the pipe such pain doth dwell,
How hot must be the pains of Hell.
Thus o’er my pipe, in contemplation
Of such things, I can constantly
Indulge in fruitful meditation
And so, puffing contentedly,
On land, on sea, at home, abroad,
I smoke my pipe and worship God.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Ambrotype Musician Man Playing Violin While Smoking Pipe
"Pongileoni's bowing and the scraping of the anonymous fiddlers had shaken the air in the great hall, had set the glass of the windows looking onto it vibrating: and thus in turn had shaken the air in Lord Edward's apartment on the further side. The shaking air rattled Lord Edward's membrane tympani; the interlocked malleus, incus, and stirrup bones were set in motion so as to agitate the membrane of the oval window and raise an infinitesimal storm in the fluid of the labyrinth. The hairy endings of the auditory nerve shuddered like weeds in a rough sea; a vast number of obscure miracles were performed in the brain, and Lord Edwards ecstatically whispered "Bach!""
-Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point (1928)
- Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach
Bach's Musical Bitch Slap
Concert master of King August of Saxony in 1717, Jean Baptiste Volumier, had a problem...
It was all the rage for the elite to have the best musicians playing at your court and parties, King August considered his to be the best.
Hearing of a harpsichordist named Louis Marchand wowing audiences all over France, the King invited him to play for his court.
In his performance, Marchand captivated the gathered elite. So good was the performance that the King offered him a generous offer to stay on his court...
Having new competition didn't sit well with Volumier, a musical smack down was in order...
Volumier, being a violinist, was not able to directly challenge the piano playing Marchand. What to do? Volumier sends for his buddy, his buddy just happened to be Bach...
“nanny-goat bassoon player”
- Johann Sebastian Bach's insult to a bassoon player he pulled a sword on and tried to duel in his 20's!
Not a stranger to musical smack down Johann Sebastian Bach, who would become known as a master, came at once.
Hiding, Bach listened to one of Marchand's performances. At the after party reception, not impressed, Bach and crew approached Marchand...
Bach's call to action? A Duel...
Not just any duel, a musical duel of crafty delight...
In a letter outlining the rules, it would be a dueling piano showdown for the ages... In a series of musical tasks, they would duel back and forth. The events would including themes to improvise and styles to imitate called out by the opposing player...
Marchand would accept the duel with Bach and the stage was set for a event for the centuries...
The Day of the duel arrived, as the elite were gathering, Marchand fearing humiliation boarded a stagecoach. This stagecoach would flee the city leaving Marchand in shame and Volumier a happy man...
Bach the victor, performed an impromptu set for the gathered elite, stunning the crowd to spread the tale.
Albert Einstein playing piano with pipe
Known as a master composer, for classics such Toccata and Fugue in D Minor here...
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho9rZjlsyYY
Johann Sebastian Bach also dabbed his pen in poetry. Although never claimed publicly, poems such as this little diddy have bore his name...
Whene’re I take my pipe and stuff it
And smoke to pass the time away,
My thoughts as I sit there and puff it,
Dwell on a picture sad and grey:
It teaches me that very like
Am I myself unto my pipe.
Like me, this pipe so fragrant burning
Is made of naught but earth and clay;
To earth I too shall be returning.
It falls and, ere I’d think to say,
It breaks in two before my eyes;
In store for me a like fate lies.
No stain the pipe’s hue yet doth darken;
It remains white. Thus do I know
That when to death’s call I must harken
My body too, all pale will grow
To black beneath the sod ’twill turn.
Or when the pipe is fairly glowing,
Behold then, instantaniously,
The smoke off into thin air going,
Till naught but ash is left to see.
Man’s frame likewise away will burn
And unto dust his body turn.
How oft it happens when one’s smoking:
The stopper’s missing from the shelf,
And one goes with one’s finger poking
Into the bowl and burns oneself.
If in the pipe such pain doth dwell,
How hot must be the pains of Hell.
Thus o’er my pipe, in contemplation
Of such things, I can constantly
Indulge in fruitful meditation
And so, puffing contentedly,
On land, on sea, at home, abroad,
I smoke my pipe and worship God.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Ambrotype Musician Man Playing Violin While Smoking Pipe
"Pongileoni's bowing and the scraping of the anonymous fiddlers had shaken the air in the great hall, had set the glass of the windows looking onto it vibrating: and thus in turn had shaken the air in Lord Edward's apartment on the further side. The shaking air rattled Lord Edward's membrane tympani; the interlocked malleus, incus, and stirrup bones were set in motion so as to agitate the membrane of the oval window and raise an infinitesimal storm in the fluid of the labyrinth. The hairy endings of the auditory nerve shuddered like weeds in a rough sea; a vast number of obscure miracles were performed in the brain, and Lord Edwards ecstatically whispered "Bach!""
-Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point (1928)
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Sweet! That Bach poem is entitled: Edifying thoughts of a tobacco smoker
It´s not really a good picture, but I found one with Bach and a pipe.
I think it´s a fantastic Video. A science fiction vintage found.
The great martian war 1913-1917.
https://vimeo.com/107454954
The great martian war 1913-1917.
https://vimeo.com/107454954
Sumo wrestler Onogawa Kisaburō blowing smoke at a One-Eyed Monster, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi- Japan, 9th month of 1865 (one of the first sumo's to perform the dohyo-iri in November of 1789
Sumo Sized Power of Hemp
The giant sized Sumo wrestlers of Japan have long engaged in battle over hollowed ground.
For centuries these Sumo wrestlers have used a sacred tool to purify this ring of battle.
You guessed it, this sacred tool is Hemp...
Yokozuna Futabayama Sadaji performing dohyo-iri
To start a Sumo match a sacred ceremony is performed called the 'Dohyo-iri'.
The rikishi's (all sumo's under Yokozuna rank) all enter the dohyo (ring) from the east or the west.
Forming a circle, they all strongly clap to attract the attention of the gods.
makuuchi dohyo-iri, everyone enters the ring exept the Yokozuna, all clapping to attract the attention of the gods
The next to enter the dohyo is the 'Yokozuna' or The Grand Champion(highest ranking sumo) whose title literally translates to 'horizontal rope'.
With the Yokozuna are the tsuruharain (the swordbearer protecting the yokozuna), the tachimochi (the herald or attendant to the yokozuna) and a gyoji (senior referee).
What the Yokozuna wears as a belt is said to purify the ring, Hemp...
c. 1910. A Japanese sumo wrestler prepares for a match
The Yokozuna's massive hemp belt is called a 'Tsuna'. Originating from 'shimenawa' (sacred Hemp ropes purifying shinto shrine's-story to come), the tsuna is giant weighing as much as 35 pounds and 4 meters in length...
To make a tsuna a sacred ceremony called 'tsunauchi' is performed. The sacred ceremony actually begins the day before in a preparation ceremony called 'asa-momi'.
As junior Sumo wrestlers gather, they all knead piles of hemp dusting it with rice bran to remove all oils making this some of the purest hand kneaded hemp...
Sumo wrestlers kneading hemp in the asa-moni - a day before the Tsunauchi ceremony
the Sumo Sized Power of Hemp continued...
The Yokozuna wearing the hemp tsuna starts his part in the dohyo-iri...
First he squats and loudly claps to attract the attention of the gods.
Grand Champion Sumo Wrestler, Taiho Clapping to attract the gods attention during dohyo-iri
The yokozuna next puts his arms stretched out palms open to show the gods he is unarmed.
Showing the gods hands are empty of weapons during dohyo-iri
Last, he raises his leg high into the air and with a powerful stomp called the 'Shiko', he drives the evil from the dohyo to the screams of "YOH" from the crowd...
With the ring purified by hemp and the Yokozuna, the match's can begin...
Yokozuna performing the Shiko (foot stomp) to ward off evil spirits during the dohyo-iri
Just like the shimenawa of the shinto shrines and temples, goheis are also on the Sumo tsuna. Goheis are zig zag shaped symbols that show the presence of a kami, i.e., a shinto divinity, god or spirit.
The purification power of the dohyo-iri is so strong that they often hold the ceremony at shinto temples to purify the space.
The sumo sized sacred power of Hemp...
One of the massive hemp 'fusa' hanging from the tsuriyane above the dohyo
Not enough hemp?...
I've heard answers come from above, well in this case its true...
Looking above the dohyō (ring) hangs suspended 'the Tsuriyane' or hung roof. Taking a closer look reveals even more purification power...
Hanging from the corners are huge Hemp 'Fusa' or colored rope with tassel ends. These fusa help further purify the dohyo while symbolizing the 'Four Spirits'.
Azure Dragon/ East
Vermilion Bird/ South
White Tiger/ West
Black Tortoise/ North
Holy Hemp...
"the tsuriyane (hung roof)" above the dohyo, dohyo-iri being performed
The Yokozuna wearing the hemp tsuna starts his part in the dohyo-iri...
First he squats and loudly claps to attract the attention of the gods.
Grand Champion Sumo Wrestler, Taiho Clapping to attract the gods attention during dohyo-iri
The yokozuna next puts his arms stretched out palms open to show the gods he is unarmed.
Showing the gods hands are empty of weapons during dohyo-iri
Last, he raises his leg high into the air and with a powerful stomp called the 'Shiko', he drives the evil from the dohyo to the screams of "YOH" from the crowd...
With the ring purified by hemp and the Yokozuna, the match's can begin...
Yokozuna performing the Shiko (foot stomp) to ward off evil spirits during the dohyo-iri
Just like the shimenawa of the shinto shrines and temples, goheis are also on the Sumo tsuna. Goheis are zig zag shaped symbols that show the presence of a kami, i.e., a shinto divinity, god or spirit.
The purification power of the dohyo-iri is so strong that they often hold the ceremony at shinto temples to purify the space.
The sumo sized sacred power of Hemp...
One of the massive hemp 'fusa' hanging from the tsuriyane above the dohyo
Not enough hemp?...
I've heard answers come from above, well in this case its true...
Looking above the dohyō (ring) hangs suspended 'the Tsuriyane' or hung roof. Taking a closer look reveals even more purification power...
Hanging from the corners are huge Hemp 'Fusa' or colored rope with tassel ends. These fusa help further purify the dohyo while symbolizing the 'Four Spirits'.
Azure Dragon/ East
Vermilion Bird/ South
White Tiger/ West
Black Tortoise/ North
Holy Hemp...
"the tsuriyane (hung roof)" above the dohyo, dohyo-iri being performed
