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August Strindberg
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| Source: wikipedia |
Vladimir Mayakovsky
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| Source: wikipedia |
Just steamy. Just punky.
Sunday, January 8, 2012
More Victorian dadism: Steampunk heroes
Charles Cros
Inventor, damned poet, rogue scientist and xenthropologist. Cros thought of the phonograph before Thomas Edison but didn't make it in time. Just tragic! He also was a passionate believer in alien life before it was cool; and proposed the construction of giant mirrors as a means of communicating with the denizens of Venus and Mars.
August Strindberg
Another damned poet. And playwright. Transformed the naturalist and supernaturalist drama across Europe. Also an anarchist and rogue scientist. He would easily fit into the drinking dens of Salacus Fields and the cross-fertilized magic-science labs of Brock Marsh.
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Not so much of a damned poet as a doomed one. A little late for steampunk, maybe more dieselpunk, but still the arch-dandy and artistic revolutionary. Fought for liberty and equality with both the pen and the sword. Even invented his own poetic-symbolic alphabet for proselytizing the new age and the new humanity. Disillusioned with the Stalinist implosion of the Russian Revolution. Committed suicide. A martyr for freedom. And a martyr for art.
Just steamy. Just punky.
August Strindberg
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Just steamy. Just punky.
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