December 2011
45 posts
“My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.”
– V. Nabokov (via lotus-eyes)
“It’s funny, I had a slightly different upbringing than my other friends and...”
– Mindy Kaling
(In response to online question: AboutNuts says: You didn’t talk much about Indian culture in your book—not that you had to—but I was curious about that part of your life… How did you learn to find your own light in that?)
The Futurist Manifesto
1909, Italy
MANIFESTO OF FUTURISM
We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness.
The essential elements of our poetry will be courage, audacity and revolt.
Literature has up to now magnified pensive immobility, ecstasy and slumber. We want to exalt movements of aggression, feverish sleeplessness, the double march, the perilous leap, the slap and the blow with the fist.
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