This 32 year old guy in London in 1914 named Wyndham Lewis made this literary magazine called BLAST to promote this new movement called Vorticism. All the cool kids of the literary art world were in on it. A lot of the magazine is dedicated to BLASTING or BLESSING things.
I don't know. They were definitely writing their little burn book for a specific time and place but the style of it is pretty cool and interesting.
I like the manifesto part:
1. Beyond Action and Reaction we would establish ourselves.
2. We start from opposite statements of a chosen world. Set up violent structure of adolescent clearness between two extremes.
3. We discharge ourselves on both sides.
4. We fight first on one side, then on the other, but always for the SAME cause, which is neither side or both sides and ours.
5. Mercenaries were always the best troops.
6. We are primitive Mercenaries in the Modern World.
7. Our Cause is NO-MAN'S.
8. We set Humour at Humour's throat. Stir up Civil War among peaceful apes.
9. We only want Humour if it has fought like Tragedy.
10. We only want Tragedy if it can clench its side-muscles like hands on its belly, and bring to the surface a laugh like a bomb.
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