Camera Work: A Photographic Quarterly (1914 (Heft 45))

THEREFORE you stand not only in abject servitude to your perceptive
consciousness—
BUT also to the mechanical re-actions of the subconsciousness, that rub-
bish heap of race-tradition—
AND believing yourself free—your least conception is colored by the
pigment of retrograde superstitions.
HERE are the fallow-lands of mental spatiality that Futurism will clear—
MAKING place for whatever you are brave enough, beautiful enough to
draw out of the realized self.
TO your blushing we shout the obscenities, we scream the blasphemies, that
you, being weak, whisper alone in the dark.
THEY are empty except of your shame.
AND so these sounds shall dissolve back to their innate senselessness.
THUS shall evolve the language of the Future.
THROUGH derision of Humanity as it appears—
TO arrive at respect for man as he shall be—
ACCEPT the tremendous truth of Futurism
Leaving all those
—Knick-knacks.—

Mina Loy.

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