LITERATURE AND THE AEROPLANE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1528, 26 August 1912, Page 5

LITERATURE AND THE AEROPLANE.

ft——_ ' ; "WIRELESS IMAGINATION." The. proclamation and the exhibition o£ I tho Futurist painters amc months ago | afforded more than a liltlc amused inter--1 est to a jaded art public. Now Signor Marinetti, who was on tho former occasion tho spokesman of tho painters, has paid tho last word upon a craft, mora particularly his own, that, of letters. It \va. c , ho says in his manifesto, whan ho was sitting; in an aeroplane, sailing through tho air at sixty miles tin hour, that no suddenly realised tho inanity ,of tho old syntax inherited from Homer, and tho .imperious necessity of letting words flow forth free from these ancient fetters. And the whirring screw miir thoso maxims of Futurist literature to him. Wo cani only givo a few out of tho multitude. "Uso only the iulinilivo of tho verb to Rive a, sense of the continuity of life. Abolish tho adjective, which 'presupposes n meditation, an arrest of the. life-force. Abolish tho adverb. Suppress all punctuation, and accept only by musical signs. "Multiply images and nnalo. Kies. Abolish tho first personal pronoun. Kemovo tho 'I,' and you will replace psychology by intuitive physieolotry (sic) oi matter. Finally, since all order is Hit product of the cautious reason, our iiiMiy: must be orchestrated so as to fall into tin proatest possible disorder." Tliis is practically a verbatim summary of the ncfl literary gospel. Tho result, says Si{pioi Mariiietti, will bo "wireless imagination." "Certainly," ho continues, "tho result will bouyly, but wewill boldly create (lie nglj and 'kill' solenmitj' everywhere. ■ Futurist poets, I have taught you to lioto librariw and museums. It was to prepare you tc halo inlellieonco. by awakening in you divine intniticm." We await with interest tho first Futurist novel.—"AVcstiuinstej Gazette."