“The
awareness that they are about to make the continuum of history explode is
characteristic of the revolutionary classes at the moment of their action. The
great revolution introduced a new calendar. The initial day of a calendar
serves as a historical time-lapse camera. And, basically, it is the same day
that keeps recurring in the guise of holidays, which are days of remembrance.
Thus the calendars do not measure time as clocks do; they are monuments of a
historical consciousness of which not the slightest trace has been apparent in
Europe in the past hundred years.”
Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy
of History, 1940
quoted in Roger Griffin, A Fascist Century, 2008
quoted in Roger Griffin, A Fascist Century, 2008
F.T. Marinetti and Thayaht
