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...Tomaso Marinetti...
...cans rust because they are only tin-plated, but the Futurist poems of Dr Marinetti are sold in books with pages of pure tin which cannot rust, that they may be read in the most distant future A dynamic eccentric who is acknowledged by artists and art critics to have founded and vastly stimulated the whole Futurist school, Poet Marinetti leaves others to carve, paint and sketch (see cut) while he pioneers. In tactile sensation Dr. Marinetti adventures by turning out all the lights and reveling with his disciples in the feel cheese crinkled paper, pearls, nutmeg graters, alabaster, jade...
...Futurist Marinetti is also deeply concerned with Futurist Food. When he commands his cook to stew a beefsteak in honey she stews beefsteak in honey, and he feels like a Raphael testing new combinations of pigments...
Last week, as Captain Marinetti embarked for Ethiopia with his two World War medals aglitter on his chest, his futurist brain was busy in the service of Fascism with "ideas for army headgear of celluloid and air-cooled aluminum to mitigate the Ethiopian desert...
Calling upon kindred spirits in all nations to rally to the banner of "Futurist food," Signer Marinetti somewhat further defined this rather vague conception: "The whole world must wake up and invent Futurist lunches and dinners. We must begin with abolishing volume and weight in our food and we must get up a new Futurist mixture which will consist in mixing only the nutritious parts of the food according as scientists will have to discover. . . . The deliciousness of food must be 'immensified' so as to comprise a sensation of all the joys in the universe...