grapeshot quotes

   A whiff of grapeshot.

-Carlyle,Thomas
  History of the French Revolution, vol.1, bk.5, ch.3.

We affirm that the world's magnificence has been enriched bya new beauty: the beautyof speed. A racing car whose hood is adorned with great pipes, like serpents of explosive breathöa roaring car that seems to ride on grapeshot ismore beautiful than theVictory of Samothrace.

-Marinetti, Emilio FilippoTomasso
  Manifesto of Futurism.

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