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1801. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

1 “A manifesto is a communication made to the whole world, whose only pretension is to the discovery of an instant cure for political, astronomical, artistic, parliamentary, agronomical and literary syphilis. Manifesto 010101, babel

391 was reborn at 12:00:00 am, 01/01/00. Manifesto 000101, babel
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About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet’s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income. Mansfield Park, Jane Austen

A clear, straightforward gaze must predominate if decisions of great import are to be taken. The Radical Artists’ Manifesto, Arp, Baumann, Eggeling, Giacometti, Helbig, Henning, Janco, Morach, Richter

a document of quiet things, clacking things: wet things, sleeping things. Boushbou is dada; dada is not boushbou, Jordan Krall

a leaflet of instructions Manifesto for the Natural Death of the Work of Art, Frieder Rusmann

All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut. Agnes Grey, Anne Bronte

Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events; the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens

A reply to those dishonest journalists who twist phrases to make the Idea seem ridiculous; to those women who only think what I have dared to say; to those for whom Lust is still nothing but a sin; to all those who in Lust can only see Vice, just as in Pride they see only vanity. Futurist Manifesto of Lust, Valentine de Saint-Point

As for the ocean to the sun which is similar being that there is to all middens to be, the possibility of doing me attach,: _ shine be be type that night during est.eve on with form for the sake of to exact simultaneous to immense quantity, well make, this, that float, rain get off. The Walrus and the Carpenter (baba hoodoo), Carlo Yemen

As no lady or gentleman, with any claims to polite breeding, can possibly sympathize with the Chuzzlewit Family without being first assured of the extreme antiquity of the race, it is a great satisfaction to know that it undoubtedly descended in a direct line from Adam and Eve; and was, in the very earliest times, closely connected with the agricultural interest. Martin Chuzzlewit, Charles Dickens

As society continues the course followed by all civilizations, a total and complete revival of Dadaism becomes both necessary and inevitable. Neumerz Manifesto, Victor Zygonov

As we await our much prayed-for great war, we Futurists carry our violent antineutralist action from city square to university and back again, using our art to prepare the Italian sensibility for the great hour of maximum danger. The Futurist Synthetic Theatre, F.T. Marinetti, Emilio Settimelli, Bruno Corra

Auto-destructive art is primarily a form of public art for industrial societies. Auto-destructive art manifesto (1959), Gustav Metzger
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… Besides,
ART does not exist Letter to Andre Breton, Jacques Vache

bullets running down his throat Fodder for the Madman (to cough up the moon), amnesiac
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coming soon from hugo baron Martin Amis Ate my Balls! (An Antiliterary Fiction), Hugo Baron
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daDa does not mean anything Dada Manifesto, Shixa

Dada is a new tendency in art. Dada Manifesto, Hugo Ball

DADA is our intensity: it erects inconsequential bayonets and the Sumatral head of German babies; Dada is life with neither bedroom slippers nor parallels; it is against and for unity and definately against the future; we are wise enough to know that our brains are going to become flabby cushions, that our anti dogmatism is as exclusive as a civil servant, and that we cry liberty but are not free; a severe necessity with entire discipline nor morals and that we spit on humanity. Monsieur Antipyrine’s Manifesto, Tristan Tzara

Dada wanted to destroy men’s pretences at reason and rediscover the natural, unreasonable order of things. Dada, Jean (Hans) Arp

DADA: we eat your letters, and regurgitate our own. dada2mada, babel
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Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her. Emma, Jane Austen

ev01+Nostri+Je01su+Christi+01ve Manifesto II, Shixa
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Finally, all of you, the masses of flesh and obedient slaves, subjective or objective, with no difference, you can feel the effect of tiding up modern arts on the Balkans. Dada is Alive, Franko Busic

For the first time throughout the world, we Spatialists are using television to transmit our new forms of art based on the concepts of space, to be understood from two points of view:
the first concerns spaces that were once considered mysterious but that are now known and explored, and that we therefore use as plastic material:
the second concerns the still unknown spaces of the cosmos - spaces to which we address ourselves as data of intuition and mystery, the typical data of art as divination. Television Manifesto of the Spatial Movement, Ambrosini, Burri, Crippa, Deluigi, De toffoli, Dova, Donati, Fontana, Giancarozzi, Guidi, Joppolo, La regina, Milena Milani, Morucchio, Peverelli, Tancredi, Vianello

For the last two months I have been living in the Place Blanche. Drop Everything, Andre Breton

“For the subjective artist, authority about art belongs exclusively to the artist.” Dada Manifesto 2001, Dale J. Sprague
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Have a good look at me! Tristan Tzara’s Manifesto, Tristan Tzara
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I am 1 part of floppydisk, formatiert und my name ist Nihilmantnk. FlopPidisk, Nihilmantrik

If I believe neither in Evil nor in Good, if I feel such a strong inclination to destroy, if there is nothing in the order of principles to which I can reasonably accede, the underlying reason is in my flesh. Manifesto in a Clear Language, Antonin Artaud

I hereby declare that on February 8th, 1916, Tristan Tzara discovered the word DADA. Declaration, Jean (Hans) Arp

I hope for my best halibut costumes your needs, I have at least small Baum-scapes seven erratischen which divides in my trousers, there a hell one sleeps phosporous kropfes, that the red little Yawn and Gluckern in the drive by evening. I Dislike Parties, Carlo Yemen

In the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses— and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread-lace, had their toy spinning-wheels of polished oak—there might be seen in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain pallid undersized men, who, by the side of the brawny country-folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race. Silas Marner, George Eliot

In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark bridge which is of iron, and London Bridge which is of stone, as an autumn evening was closing in. Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens

I sleep very late. 01001 con1001101001der my10011elf r0000110100her l01001ke00001ble, Tristan Tzara/Samantha du Raeno

I sleep very late. How I became charming, likeable and delightful, Tristan Tzara

It could be said that the only display of the art of colors currently in use is the painting. Abstract Cinema, Bruno Corra

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
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jolifanto bambla ô falli bambla Karawane, Hugo Ball

Just a little, my amount of yam of thought of the Chinese, set-tembre in this way minute of these things already, almost assuming, that that those so into this time when is in order shouted and to go pannekoekvampire method of my hat cetriolino of the opportunity of luppoli which shakes, it waits in order to take imperceptivelmente at the waiting of roze of fresserrug. Just a little…, Carlo Yemen
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KARAWANE
OR, THE TEMPORARY DEATH OF THE BRUITIST Karawane Manifesto, Laura Winton
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Langford, Dec. Lady Susan, Jane Austen

Last No Exit: Following the Dialogue of and Debate in the Turns of All Strands from Within Painting Manifesto III, Shixa

Let the reader be introduced to Lady Carbury, upon whose character and doings much will depend of whatever interest these pages may have, as she sits at her writing-table in her own room in her own house in Welbeck Street. The Way We Live Now, Anthony Trollope

“Like everything in life, Dada is useless” Yet Another Dada Manifesto, Robert Whyte

London. Bleak House, Charles Dickens

Long live the undertakers of the combine! Monsieur Aa the antiphilosopher sends us this manifesto, Tristan Tzara
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Man In Regent Street is auto-destructive. Auto-destructive art manifesto (1960), Gustav Metzger

MARLEY was dead: to begin with. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning. Daniel Deronda, George Eliot

My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

My godmother lived in a handsome house in the clean and ancient town of Bretton. Villette, Charlotte Bronte
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Night is generally my time for walking. The Old Curiosity Shop, Charles Dickens

NO. no no YES no no, Babel

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine. Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen

‘NOW, what I want is, Facts. Hard Times, Charles Dickens
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“Oh! ‘t is hard, ‘t is hard to be working The whole of the live-long day, When all the neighbours about one Are off to their jaunts and play. Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell

On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore, or Blackmoor. Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy

One must become acquainted with everybody except oneself; one must not know which sex one belongs to; I do not care whether I am male or female, I do not admire men more than I do women. Thank you, Francis!, Francis Picabia

Only anthropophagy unites us. Anthropophagite Manifesto, Oswald de Andrade
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Plastic dynamism is the simultaneous action of the motion characteristic of an object (its absolute motion), mixed with the transformation which the object undergoes in relation to its mobile and immobile environment (its relative motion). Plastic Dynamism, Umberto Boccioni

preamble = sardanapalus Dada Manifesto on Feeble Love and Bitter Love, Tristan Tzara

PREFACE
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Reduce to one question (1), that which in the act of questioning creates exactly that which denies its own answer (0): that which transcends the need to question. The Simplicity of Complexity, Samantha du Raeno
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Since I can do no good because a woman, Reach constantly at something that is near it. Middlemarch, George Eliot

Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by contemplating the limited remnant of the earliest patents; there any unwelcome sensations, arising from domestic affairs changed naturally into pity and contempt as he turned over the almost endless creations of the last century; and there, if every other leaf were powerless, he could read his own history with an interest which never failed. Persuasion, Jane Austen

So strong is the belief in life, in what is most fragile in life - real life, I mean - that in the end this belief is lost. Manifesto of Surrealism, Andre Breton
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The book, a wholly passéist means of preserving and communicating thought, has for a long time been fated to disappear like cathedrals, towers, crenellated walls, museums, and the pacifist ideal. The Futurist Cinema, F.T. Marinetti, Bruno Corra, Emilio Settimelli, Arnaldo Ginna, Giacomo Balla and Remo Chiti

The Cubists want to cover Dada with snow; it may surprise you, but it is so, they want to empty the snow out of their pipe on to Dada. Dada Manifesto, Francis Picabia

The Electric-Vibrating-Luminous Theatre will express what the new form of art proposes to do. For a New Theatre: “electric-vibrating-luminous”, Mauro Montalti

The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen

The first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the earlier history of the public career of the immortal Pickwick would appear to be involved, is derived from the perusal of the following entry in the Transactions of the Pickwick Club, which the editor of these papers feels the highest pleasure in laying before his readers, as a proof of the careful attention, indefatigable assiduity, and nice discrimination, with which his search among the multifarious documents confided to him has been conducted. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens

The magic of a word - DADA - which for journalists has opened the door to an unforeseen world, has for us not the slightest importance. Dada Manifesto, Tristan Tzara

THE other day, in looking over my papers, I found in my desk the following copy of a letter, sent by me a year since to an old school acquaintance:— The Professor, Charlotte Bronte

There once lived, in a sequestered part of the county of Devonshire, one Mr Godfrey Nickleby: a worthy gentleman, who, taking it into his head rather late in life that he must get married, and not being young enough or rich enough to aspire to the hand of a lady of fortune, had wedded an old flame out of mere attachment, who in her turn had taken him for the same reason. Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

The signatories of this manifesto have, under the battle cry
                                          DADA!!!
gathered together to put forward a new art from which they expect the realisation of new ideas. Dadaist Manifesto, Tristan Tzara, Franz Jung, George Grosz, Marcel Janco, Richard Huelsenbeck, Gerhard Preisz, Raoul Hausmann

Thirty years ago, Marseilles lay burning in the sun, one day. Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens

(this is courier, men! mowing like a snake, ey!) Aliteral, Deliteral, Subliteral, Serner

To begin with, Photodynamism cannot be interpreted as an innovation applicable to photography in the way that chronophotography was. Futurist Photodynamism, Anton Giulio Bragaglia

To begin with the old rigmarole of childhood. Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell

Today 18th Febrary 1999. Manifesto of the Movimento Sinestetico, Matteo Albertin, Antonio Sassu, Massimo Perseghin

TO THE PUBLIC Manifesto, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes

To the readers of our New First Unexpected. Slap in the Face of Public Taste, D. Burliuk, Alexander Kruchenykh, V. Mayakovsky, Victor Khlebnikov

To the young programmers of the World! Manifesto of the Futurist Programmers, Umberto Boccioni, Paul Haeberli, Bruce Karsh, Ron Fischer, Peter Broadwell, Tim Wicinski
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We are binary oppositions: divided minds, the jekyllhydish co-existence of two personalities in one whole, existing as a mutually necessary conflict of positive/negative elements. 1:0, Babel

we shall know man again here … Crimes of the Future, Joseph Zozaya

When Louis Trevelyan was twenty-four years old, he had all the world before him where to choose; and, among other things, he chose to go to the Mandarin Islands, and there fell in love with Emily Rowley, the daughter of Sir Marmaduke, the governor. He Knew He Was Right, Anthony Trollope

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

without the pursuit of I worship you Manifesto of Monsieur Aa the Antiphilosopher, Tristan Tzara

‘Wooed and married and a’.’ North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell

Written by chief protractor Joseph Zozaya, Implicate Manifesto of the Absurdist Writing Group z808, Joseph Zozaya
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Year 1 7 years and 39.1 madas^* (aka new (re-)statement of purpose), babel

You are all indicted; stand up! Manifeste Cannibale Dada, Francis Picabia

You must go back with me to the autumn of 1827. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte

WRITINGS INCLUDED

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1:0

7 years and 39.1 madas^* (aka new (re-)statement of purpose)

Abstract Cinema

A Christmas Carol

Agnes Grey

Aliteral Deliteral Subliteral

Anthropophagite Manifesto

A Tale of Two Cities

Auto-destructive art manifesto (1959)

Auto-destructive art manifesto (1960)

Bleak House

Boushbou is dada; dada is not boushbou

Crimes of the Future

Dada

Dada2Mada

Dada is Alive

Dada Manifesto

Dada Manifesto 2001

Dada Manifesto, Francis Picabia

Dada Manifesto, Hugo Ball

Dada Manifesto, Tristan Tzara

Dada Manifesto on Feeble Love and Bitter Love

Dadaist Manifesto

Daniel Deronda

David Copperfield

Declaration

Drop Everything

Emma

FlopPidisk

Fodder for the Madman (to cough up the moon)

For a New Theatre: “electric-vibrating-luminous”

Futurist Manifesto of Lust

Futurist Photodynamism

Great Expectations

Hard Times

He Knew He Was Right

How I became charming, likeable and delightful

I Dislike Parties

Implicate Manifesto of the Absurdist Writing Group z808

Jane Eyre

Just a little…

Karawane

Karawane Manifesto

Klitink Manifesto

Lady Susan

Letter to Andre Breton

Little Dorrit

Manifeste Cannibale Dada

Manifesto

Manifesto 000101

Manifesto 010101

Manifesto II

Manifesto III

Manifesto for the Natural Death of the Work of Art

Manifesto in a Clear Language

Manifesto of Monsieur Aa the Antiphilosopher

Manifesto of Surrealism

Manifesto of the Futurist Programmers

Manifesto of the Movimento Sinestetico

Mansfield Park

Martin Amis At my Balls

Martin Chuzzlewit

Mary Barton

Middlemarch

Monsieur Antipyrine’s Manifesto

Neumerz Manifesto

Nicholas Nickleby

no no YES no no

North and South

Northanger Abbey

Oliver Twist

Our Mutual Friend

Persuasion

Plastic Dynamism

Pride and Prejudice

Sense and Sensibility

Silas Marner

Slap in the Face of Public Taste

Television Manifesto of the Spatial Movement

Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Thank you, Francis!

The Futurist Cinema

The Futurist Synthetic Theatre

The Old Curiosity Shop

The Pickwick Papers

The Professor

The Radical Artists’ Manifesto

The Simplicity of Complexity

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

The Walrus and the Carpenter (baba hoodoo)

The Way We Live Now

Tristan Tzara’s Manifesto

Villette

Wives and Daughters

Wuthering Heights

Yet Another Dada Manifesto