Queer Theory & Futurism

[Phillip Grayson]

Obvious I guess and prolly well explored already, but with all the pastiche
and such, is there the possibility that AtD mocks an artistic deterioration
since, say, _Ulysses_ along with a cultural one since WWI?









On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:

> Mark Kohut sez:
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> > you will recall that marinetti's futurism is savaged big time in AtD...
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> Indeed it is, and the rush of wind that the Futurists loved (re-read the
> dive-bombing, sport with the flying girls) blows straight into
> hair-straight-back, Rockwell Kentish, wind-tunnel Nazi aesthetic:
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> "Roland too became conscious of the wind, as his mortality had never
> allowed him. Discovered it so . . . so joyful, that the arrow must veer into
> it. The wind had been blowing all year long, year after year, but Roland had
> felt only the secular wind . . . he means, only his personal wind. Yet . . .
> Selena, the wind, the wind’s everywhere . . . ."
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