as Pound put it:
We are all Futurists to the extent of believing with Guillaume Appolinaire that
“On ne peut pas porter partout avec soi le cadavre de son pere”
(Gaudier-Brzeska, p. 94),
they did not agree with futuristic preoccupation with men and machines.<You can’t carry your father’s corpse everywhere with you>
ibid. A GUIDE TO EZRA POUND: 1885-1920 by lan Christie Clark, April, 1958, p. 122