Day: July 29, 2011

• July 29, 2011

  On 3 moods toward the past: smashing, worshipping, and loving while transcending

  The 1st Mood: The Past Must be Smashed.  “We want to demolish museums and libraries, fight morality, feminism and all opportunist and utilitarian cowardice.” –F.T. Marinetti, The Futurist Manifesto (1909) “The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past.” –Faulkner Thanks to Faulkner, Ibsen, and Chekhov, we recognize that the past cannot be wiped out or destroyed. In…