war is beautiful... by e.marinetti

E. Marinetti在對埃塞俄比亞的戰爭宣言中說:

'War is beautiful because it establishes man's dominion over the subjugated machinery(被制服的機器) by means of gas masks(防毒面具), terrifying megaphones(嚇人的機關槍), flamethrowers(火燄噴射器), and small tanks.

War is beautiful because it initiates the dreamt of metallisation of the human body(人體身體金屬化).

War is beautiful because it combines the gunfire(砲火), the cannonades(砲轟), the cease-fire(停火), the scents(芳香), and the stench of putrefaction(腐屍的惡臭) into a symphony.

War is beautiful because it creates new architecture, like that of the big tanks, the geometrical formation flights(飛行隊的構圖), the smoke spirals from burning villages.

Poets and Artists of Futurism(未來主義)! remember these principles of an aesthetics of war so that your struggle for a new literature and a new graphic art may be illuminated(照亮) by them.'

從未看過一段歌頌戰爭的文字寫得如此詩意.