He declared an intention "to destroy museums, libraries, academies of every sort," and wrote, "We intend to glorify war — the only hygiene of the world — militarism, patriotism, the destructive gestures of anarchists, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and contempt for woman".
The author herself is toying with archetypes of various roles: just as Lucy apes the protective and destructive gestures of motherhood, her older brother unconsciously echoes the furtive behavior of his uncle, who skulks around the chateau's boathouse phoning a woman with whom he is having an affair.
Such interactions had a negative quality to them and included hostile or destructive gestures and forms of physical violence such as an object being thrown at another character with the intent to cause pain.
There is the infamous Article 9, which authorized war and anticipated fascism ("We want to glorify war — the only cure for the world — militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of the anarchist").
In the Futurist Manifesto of 1909, Mussolini's contemporary Filippo Marinetti declared his desire to "glorify war – the world's only hygiene – militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman".
9 We want to glorify war - the only cure for the world - militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of the anarchists, the beautiful ideas which kill, and contempt for woman.
"We will glorify war – the world's only hygiene – militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers," Italian futurist poet F.T. Marinetti wrote at the time in the lead-up to a war everyone could see coming.
The grand, destructive gesture of digging up the gallery floor begged for my shock and awe but all I could think was that I've seen this before.
"We will glorify war," the Italian Futurists wrote in 1909, "the world's only hygiene – militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman".
It reads like something by a neo-Nazi Trump supporter: "We will glorify war, the world's only hygiene, militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman".
"There was never a movie there, only an extravagant, self-destructive gesture," David Thomson writes in his 1996 book, "Rosebud".
