However convincingly space agencies justify the enormous budgets, there’s one gratuitous expense: training astronauts for free fall.

In another era, the mish-mash presentation of Africa would have been the focal point of criticism. But this is not the age for facts.

“I don’t believe in progress, no.”

Iggy showed the error of human existence, the breathless nearness of death, and the lure of fun and action. He was like a much better-looking version of Schopenhauer.

“This text was written at the end of 1962, after my return from Algeria. For me the text is the matrix for Tombeau pour cinq cent mille soldats.” P.G.

I said “Would you like a rope? You know that haul you have is not secured properly.”

“There is something deeply humiliating in such a situation.”

“He always read Priam instead of ‘prime’.”

Thérèse ayant douleurs menstruelles could be a beginning.

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s closeness to fascism has put him in a dubious light. Barbara Basting tells of her personal fascination with futurism and her dehabituation from its aura and central figure.