Oh, Wyndham Lewis.
(Do I remember correctly that we all got a big kick out of that in Jesse's class? I know we read something from Blast at one point.)
And the other manifestos are just as entertaining. Sometimes they just sound cranky rather than like they're trying to invent a new aesthetic. Oh, modernists, never stop amusing me.
AUTOMOBILISM (Marinetteism) bores us. We don't want to go about making a hullo-bullo about motor cars, anymore than about knives and forks, elephants or gas-pipes.
Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly.
(Do I remember correctly that we all got a big kick out of that in Jesse's class? I know we read something from Blast at one point.)
And the other manifestos are just as entertaining. Sometimes they just sound cranky rather than like they're trying to invent a new aesthetic. Oh, modernists, never stop amusing me.
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