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"...my face covered in good factory mud, covered with metal scratches, useless sweat and celestial grime, amidst the complaint of staid fishermen and angry naturalists..."

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"...I turned sharply back on my tracks with the mad
intoxication of puppies biting their tails, and suddenly there were two cyclists
disapproving of me and tottering in front of me like two persuasive but contradictory
reasons. Their stupid swaying got in my way. What a bore! Pouah! I stopped short,
and in disgust hurled myself - vlan! - head over heels in a ditch..."

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"...And we hunted, like young lions, death with its black fur dappled with pale crosses,
who ran before us in the vast violet sky, palpable and living..."

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"We drove on, crushing beneath our burning wheels, like shirt-collars under the iron, the watch dogs on the steps of the houses."

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"...A great sweep of madness brought
us sharply back to ourselves and drove us through the streets, steep and deep, like
dried up torrents..."

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"I lay along mine like a corpse on its bier, but I suddenly revived again beneath the steering wheel - a guillotine knife - which threatened my stomach."

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Hyper masculinity in text:
"Our hearts were filled with an immense pride at feeling ourselves standing quite alone"
"And we hunted, like young lions"
"Let us leave good sense behind"

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"...distracted by the rumbling of huge double decker trams that
went leaping by, streaked with light like the villages celebrating their festivals..."

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Futurism reject:
- past
- slowness
- stasis
- man

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Leaving the past behind, and everything it represents, like museums and cemeteries.
Focusing on the future.
Taking off the shackles of social hierarchy.
Speed and progress embodied in technological inventions and machines like the car.
Taking more risks and sense of fatalism.
Embrace life and enact change courageously.
Glorifying conflict,  violence and danger.

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- A chaotic/ anarchical world in which technological advance is being admired and awed.
- it wants everyone to feel their emotions to an extreme
- beauty can only be appreciated and found through struggle
- "we want to glorify war - the only cure for the world - militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of the anarchist, the beautiful ideas that kill, and contempt for women"
- is ant-enlightenment --> destruction of museums, libraries, fight morality, feminism and all opportunist and utilitarian cowardice

- was writing during the period leading up to the WWI - within fascist Italy (Mussolini)

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Surreal poetry

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'demolish museums and libraries, fight morality, feminism and all opportunist and utilitarian cowardice'
Criticisms of academics:
-'cemeteries of wasted
effort'
-'catacombs of the libraries'
-'Literature has up to now magnified pensive immobility, ecstasy and
slumber'

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Picks on gangrenous archaeologists.

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Diverting canals, flooding the museum

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He doesn't seem to like women very much.... Says "We want to glorify... contempt for women" in point 9 and demolish feminism in point 10.

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Roaring motor car sounding like machine gun more beautiful than Winged Victory of Samothrace?

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Imagery of machinery of war - glorifying violence and conflict. Leading up to Great War, Fascism, Mussolini.