In a response to this essay, Valentine de Saint-Ponte argued that its main points could also be followed by women. In this essay's frame story, its narrator leaps into a muddy ditch and dictates its main points while surrounded by complaining fishermen and gouty naturalists. This essay ends by exclaiming "Standing on the world's summit we launch once again our insolent challenge to the stars!" after it argues that libraries and museums are cemeteries which should be demolished. Its ninth point praises "the beautiful ideas which kill," and procl
In a response to this essay, Valentine de Saint-Ponte argued that its main points could also be followed by women. In this essay's frame story, its narrator leaps into a muddy ditch and dictates its main points while surrounded by complaining fishermen and gouty naturalists. This essay ends by exclaiming "Standing on the world's summit we launch once again our insolent challenge to the stars!" after it argues that libraries and museums are cemeteries which should be demolished. Its ninth point praises "the beautiful ideas which kill," and proclaims "we want to glorify war." Published in Le Figaro in 1909, this essay declares that "a roaring motor car which seems to run on machine-gun fire, is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace." For 10 points, name this essay written by F. T. Marinetti outlining the principles of a movement led by Giacomo Balla and Umberto Boccioni.
In a response to this essay, Valentine de Saint-Ponte argued that its main points could also be followed by women.
the Futurist Manifesto [or The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism]