by Philipp Blom
63 ‘material it is in itself’: Adolf Loos, Ins Leere gesprochen, Paris/Zurich, 1921, 136.
63 ‘be entirely different’: ibid., 159.
64 ‘stuck in the past’: Adolf Loos, Ornament und Verbrechen, in Ulrich Conrads, Programme und Manifeste zur Architektur des 20. Jahrhunderts, Braunschweig, 1981, 16.
64 ‘can be beautiful’: Otto Wagner, Die Baukunst unserer Zeit, Vienna, 1914, 44.
69 ‘majority in parliament’: Freud to Fleiss, 11 March 1902, Freud-Fleiss, 501-2.
70 ‘for the apocalypse’: Karl Kraus, in Die Fackel, 10 July 1914.
4. 1903: A Strange Luminescence
75 ‘It was over’: Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg, 297-8, transl. PB.
76 ‘faint, fairy lights’: Marie Curie, Autobiographical Notes, in Pierre Curie, translated by C. & V. Kellog, New York, 1923, 186-7.
77 ‘origin of one of us’: quoted in Rosalynd Pflaum, Grand Obsession: Madame Curie and Her World, Doubleday, New York: Macmillan, 1989, 74.
78 ‘the new discoveries’: Pierre Curie, Nobel Prize lecture, in Nobel Lectures, ‘Physics 1901-2’, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1967, 74.
78 ‘companion of my life’: quoted in Vincent Cronin, Paris on the Eve, London: HarperCollins, 1989, 222.
81 ‘sixth place of decimals’: quoted in Teich and Porter, 245.
84 ‘constitutes true duration’: Henri Bergson, Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience, Paris: Daus, 1909, 51.
84 ‘man who runs’: Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory, London: Allea, 1911, 208-9.
84 ‘itself varnished too’: Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, London, 1902, 89.
85 ‘points of view’: José Ortega y Gasset, ‘Adám en el Paraiso’, in Obras Completas, 1910, I, 471. Quoted in Kern, Culture of Space and Time, 151.
86 ‘and so forth’: Patrick Brantlinger, in Teich and Porter, 108.
87 ‘boulevard Montmartre, Paris’: Le Matin, 13 March 1910.
88 ‘this thing you know’: quoted in Simon, Dark Light, 237.
88 ‘a legal crime’: ibid., 238-9.
89 ‘to these things’: Wells, A World Set Free, London, 1914, 16.
90 ‘fan-like humped body’: Wells, The War in the Air, London, 1898, 47.
91 ‘What a career’: Le Figaro, 6 November 1906.
91 ‘strength or certainty’: quoted in Conrad, Modern Times, 83.
5. 1904: His Majesty and Mister Morel
92 ‘poured into the village’: quoted in John Bierman, Dark Safari: The Life behind the Legend of Henry Morton Stanley, New York, 1990, 281.
93 ‘drilled into soldierhood’: Casement and O’Sullivan, 68ff.
93 ‘given to me’: ibid., 72.
95 ‘with passionate emphasis’: Morel et al., E. D. Morel’s History, 28-9.
96 ‘King for a croniman’: ibid., 41-2.
97 ‘production of india-rubber’: Casement, 87.
98 ‘in that institution’: ibid., 99.
98 ‘poor, poor people’: Casement and O’Sullivan, 17.
99 ‘Infamous shameful system’: ibid., 263.
100 ‘more than 5 years’: John Harris, unpublished MS, quoted in Louis ‘Sir John Harris’, 833.
102 ‘Boers to do it’: Der Floh, 8 June 1902, 2.
102 ‘people of heroes’: Arbeiterzeitung, 7 June 1902, 1.
102 ‘entirely in ... [the Jews’] hands’: quoted after Judd and Surridge, 242.
103 ‘white man’s war’: quoted after Judd and Surridge, 154.
103 ‘yes, in capacity’: Webb, 232.
104 ‘mighty German Kaiser’: Bundesarchiv Potsdam, Akten des Reichskolonialamtes, RKA, 10.01 2089, Bl. 23, MS copy of the proclamation to the Herero and the additional order to the Kaiserliche Schutztruppe, 2 October 1904.
105 ‘killed them with bayonets’: J. De Bruijn and H. Colijn, De slag om Tjakra Negara. Een verslag in drie brieven. Amsterdam, VI uitgeverij, 1998, 34.
106 ‘old wives’ tales’: quoted after Hochschild, 240.
106 ‘seen in the Congo’: ibid., 238.
107 ‘too large a subject’: ibid., 247.
108 ‘sacrifices in the Congo’: ibid., 259.
110 ‘develop his estate’: Joseph Chamberlain, quoted in J. L. Gavin and Julian Amery, The Life of Joseph Chamberlain, London, 1932-51, I, 27.
112 ‘Cowboys and Indians’ were introduced: Bernard Potter, 66.
114 ‘lowest order of humanity’: Plakate in Frankfurt, 1880-1914, Exhibition, Historisches Museum Frankfurt, 1986.
114 ‘youth was in it’: Loti, Aziyadé, 7.
115 ‘more individual freedom’: Spitzemberg, 434.
116 was specifically colonial: Sauvage, Eine Reise von Jean Sauvage, Oberlehrer, Berlin, 1900, 65.
118 ‘now and then’: Bely, 101.
120 ‘could deepy admire’: quoted after Hochschild, 289.
121 ‘was the Congo’: ibid., 287.
6. 1905: In All Fury
122 ‘among them children’: Witte, 402.
124 ‘realised by experience’: quoted in Figes, Tragedy, 95.
125 ‘that I know of’: quoted in Figes, Tragedy, 66.
126 ‘more obstinate character’: quoted in Engel, 82.
127 ‘as lavatory attendants’: quoted in Figes, Tragedy, 113.
127 ‘a common business’: M. B., ‘Peterburgskie trushchoby’, 31 October 1913. Quoted in Neuberger, Hooliganism: Crime, Culture and Power in St Petersburg, 1900-1914, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
127 ‘resembled human beings’: Svirskii, ‘Peterburgskie khuligany’, 250. Quoted in Neuberger, Hooliganism.
128 ‘revolution will break out’: Witte, 397.
128 ‘noted for free thinking’: quoted after Harcave, 11.
130 ‘governor-general of Finland’: Witte, 372.
130 ‘than of men’: ibid., 364.
130 ‘promoted his advancement’: ibid., 365.
130 ‘a rough manner’: ibid., 98-9.
131 ‘Russia is happy’: ibid., 374.
131 ‘against the Jews’: ibid., 377.
131 ‘become extreme revolutionaries’: ibid., 379.
131 ‘buy his way out’: ibid., 378.
133 ‘exterminate our enemies’: Piotr Zaichnevsky, quoted after Figes, Tragedy, 132.
135 ‘about the navy’: Witte, 382.
135 ‘certain of victory’: ibid., 385.
136 ‘beat them with icons’: Figes, People’s Tragedy, 170.
136 ‘the highest authority’: ibid., 170.
137 ‘let us build jails’: ibid., 173.
138 ‘powers that be’: A. M. Buiko, quoted after Salisbury, Black Snow, 105.
140 ‘purpose in going’: quoted in Salisbury, Black Snow, 120.
141 ‘open fire on us’: quoted in Salisbury, Black Snow, 121.
141 ‘through his teeth’: quoted in Figes, People’s Tragedy, 177.
142 ‘of innocent blood’: ibid., 127.
142 ‘pogromshchik by conviction’: Witte, 404.
143 ‘are absolutely terrified’: quoted after Salisbury, Black Snow, 130-1.
143 ‘to enact laws’: Witte, 468.
146 ‘of whatever variety’: ibid., 479.
146 ‘his personal enemies’: ibid., 480, 481.
147 ‘everyone was asking for’: quoted in Figes, 191.
147 ‘shipping transport grease’: Salisbury, Black Snow, 174.
148 settling of accounts began: ibid., 167.
148 ‘to be preserved’: quoted in Salisbury, 166-7.
150 ‘and again dispersed’: Bely, 51.
150 ‘oceans of blood’: ibid., 65.
152 ‘scroll spells Death’: quoted in Salisbury, Black Snow, 193.
152 ‘generally joyless existence’: Zdanevich and Larionov, ‘Why We Paint Ourselves’, 83. Quoted in Neuberger, Hooliganism.
152 ‘to rearrange life’: quoted in Vladimir Markov, Russian Futurism, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968, 9.
152 ‘all yours, yours’: Livshits, T
he One and a Half-Eyed Archer, 42. Quoted in Neuberger, Hoolganism.
153 ‘will of the Board’: Bryusov, ‘Republic of the Southern Cross’, in The Republic of the Southern Cross, and other stories, G. Constable, London, 1918.
154 ‘and bury him’: Andreyev, 41.
154 ‘way any longer’: Witte, 474.
7. 1906: Dreadnought and Anxiety
155 ‘wine and of flowers’: Manchester Guardian, 12 February 1906, 1.
156 ‘as the English’: quoted in Massie, 151.
157 ‘habitually called “home”’: ibid., 26.
157 ‘got his balance’: ibid., 28.
157 ‘of the ladies’: ibid., 153-4.
158 ‘for the navy’: ibid., 157.
159 ‘on the water’: ibid., 162.
159 ‘equal to English’: ibid., 166.
160 ‘present time is England’: ibid., 172.
161 ‘fainted at the sight’: ibid., 410.
161 ‘the revolver tracks’: ibid., 399.
161 ‘takes four years’: ibid., 406.
163 ‘be pea shooters’: ibid., 471.
163 ‘would be HELL’: ibid., 472.
164 ‘were considered imbeciles’: Zeldin, Conflicts in French Society, 896.
164 ‘of male pride’: ibid., 881.
165 ‘not a man’: ibid., 898.
165 ‘an effiminate man’: Marcel Proust, Correspondance, 6-8 November 1920, ed. Philip Kolt, Paris, 1970.
166 ‘termination of the affair’: Wythe Williams, The Tiger of France: Conversations with Clemenceau, New York: Ovell, Sloan and Pearce, 1949, 82.
166 ‘ideal of justice’: quoted by Richard Cohen, By the Sword, New York: Random House, 2002, 183.
167 ‘reservist beer mugs’: C. Berg and U. Hermann, Industriegesellschaft und Kulturkrise, Munich, 1991, 13.
167 ‘follow orders immediately’: H. F. Kahle, Grundzüge einer evangelischen Volkserziehung, Breslau, 1890.
168 ‘and other Russians’: Hans Kohn ‘Rückblick auf eine gemeinsame Jugend’, in Tramer ed., Robert Weltsch, Tel Aviv, 1961, 115.
168 ‘Dr. von Staat’: Thomas Mann, Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen, Frankfurt/M, 1983, 247.
170 by his cabinet: Clark, Wilhelm II, 162.
170 ‘ordered them to do so’: ibid., 163.
171 ‘askance at a German’: ibid., 169.
171 ‘holds a dagger’: Daily Telegraph, 28 October 1908.
171 ‘this is a madhouse’: Spitzemberg, 489.
172 ‘hitherto been unquestioned’: quoted after Clark, Wilhelm II, 172-3.
172 ‘made in public’: ibid., 167.
172 ‘routine of life’: quoted in Massie, 666.
172 ‘out of the question’: ibid., 669.
173 ‘my only bosom friend’: ibid., 667.
173 ‘radiance in my life’: ibid., 667.
173 ‘arm around him’: Witte, 457.
173 ‘would not suffer it’: quoted in Massie, 669.
174 ‘his good nose’: quoted in Massie, 131.
175 ‘with your peculiarities’: quoted in Massie, 672.
176 ‘in the dark’: Die Zukunft, 17 November 1906.
176 ‘already warm enough’: ibid., 13 April 1907.
178 ‘of such sinners’: Spitzemberg, 472.
178 ‘to the music’: quoted after Massie, 690.
179 ‘a third one’: Magnus Hirschfeld, Berlins drittes Geschlecht, Berlin, 1904, 6.
179 ‘profound psychological shock’: ibid., 39.
180 ‘less than fifteen times’: quoted in Caroline Daley, ‘Sandow, the Strongman of Eugenics’, Australian Historical Studies, 120, 2, 234.
181 ‘see his passport’: quoted in Massie, 630.
181 ‘subject of the Kaiser’: quoted in Massie, 637.
182 ‘passage of the seas’: Erskine Childers, The Riddle of the Sands, London, 1903, 90.
182 ‘the English shores’: quoted in Massie, 633.
184 ‘something of beauty’: Nordau, Degeneration, 7.
184 ‘and frizzy images’: ibid., 228.
184 ‘the lowest level’: ibid., 119-22.
185 ‘under his thumbs’: ibid., 544, 556-7.
186 ‘their own guilt’: Nordau, Sandow Paper, 1:20.
186 ‘proclaim their Jewishness’: Nordau, Jüdische Turnerzeitung, 1900, II, 12.
186 ‘diseased organic processes’: Nordau, Degeneration, 416.
188 ‘become entirely superfluous’: Mayreder, Kritik der Weiblichkeit, 109-10.
188 ‘canon of masculinity’: ibid., 122.
8. 1907: Dreams and Visions
189 ‘rise inside you’: Ernst Stadler, Dichtungen, ed. K. L. Schneider, 2 vols. (Hamburg, 1954), vol. I, 120; a poem from around 1910.
192 ‘absolute masculine activity’: Mayreder, 12.
192 ‘they were raped’: Lida Gustava Heymann, ‘Weiblicher Pazifismus’, in Gisela Brinker-Gabler (ed.), Frauen gegen den Krieg, Frankfurt/M, 1980, 65.
193 ‘like bloody snowflakes’: Suttner, Maschinenzeitalter, 54.
194 ‘in their development’: quoted in Geiss, Julikrise und Kriegsausbruch 1914, Hannover, 1963, nos. 319, 346.
194 ‘the whole world’: quoted in Tuchman, 237.
195 ‘aegis of Russia’: ibid., 257-8.
195 ‘our time, is enormous’: Andrew D. White, Autobiography, New York, 1922, 260.
196 ‘exhaustion and ruin’: quoted in Tuchman, 258.
196 ‘been carfully eliminated’: ibid., 261.
196 ‘chilled to the bone’: ibid., 264.
199 ‘all this novelty’: Franziska von Reventlow, Herrn Dames Aufzeichnungen, in Gesammelte Werke, Munich, 1925, 194.
200 ‘made of glass’: ibid.
200 ‘in the middle’: ibid.
201 ‘towards the heavens’: Münchner Post, 2 August 1888.
204 ‘coloured by it’: Martin Buber, Drei Reden über das Judentum, Frankfurt/M, 1911, 12-13.
208 ‘a clammy hell’: Schorske, Vienna, 251.
209 ‘a cotswold ewe’: quoted in Peter Washington, Blavatsky, 41.
211 ‘Thousand kisses, darling’: ibid., 123.
211 ‘and political tendencies’: Edward Carpenter, The Intermediate Sex, London, 1908, 114-15.
212 ‘wearer [and] sex maniac’: George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier, London, 1937.
215 ‘extra-sensory capabilities’: quoted in Wolfgang G. Vögele, Der andere Rudolf Steiner. Augenzeugenberichte, Interviews, Karikaturen, Dornach, 2005, 49ff.
215 was ‘murdering souls’: Ellen Key, Das Jahrhurdert des Kindes, Berlin, 1908, 124.
9. 1908: Ladies with Rocks
220 ‘anywhere in the world’: quoted in Andrew Rosen, Rise up,Women!, 104-5.
220 ‘Simply indifferent’: ibid., 105.
220 ‘to human society’: ibid., 97.
222 ‘is always untidy’: Saltonstall, quoted in Liddington, 87-8, 101-2.
222 ‘up in poverty’: quoted in Liddington and Norris, 32.
223 ‘communal outdoor closets’: Liddington, 30-1.
224 ‘silently, Mother’s side’: ibid., 34.
225 ‘manly or just’: ibid., 151.
225 ‘freedom really means’: ibid., 48.
225 ‘bear the consequences’: ibid., 49.
226 ‘matter so much’: ibid., 87.
227 ‘barrage of press cuttings’: ibid., 48.
229 ‘name was mud’: ibid., 241.
229 ‘by Big Ben’: ibid., 238.
229 ‘Signed, Leonora Cohen’: ibid, 139.
233 ‘and the cooking’: quoted after Stites, Women’s Liberation Movement, 208-9.
234 ‘for me to do’: ibid., 231-2.
237 ‘its very foundations’: Anita Augspurg, Ehe?: Zur Reform der sexuellen Moral, Berlin, Internationale Verlagsgesellschaft, 1911, 19.
237 ‘and the family’: quoted in Allen, 53.
238 ‘a men’s state’: Heymann and Augspurg, 36.
238 ‘consternation in Munich’: ibid., 45.
239 ‘the only
option’: quoted in Christiane Henke, Anita Augspurg, Reinbeck, 2000, 58.
239 ‘your husband’s signature’: Anita Augspurg, ‘Ein typischer Fall der Gegenwart’, in: Zeitschrift für Frauenstimmrecht, 1905, 81.
239 ‘on all women’: Anita Augspurg, ‘Sittlichkeit und Rechtsschutz’, in Die Zeit, 469, 1903, 312.
239 ‘destroying our race’: Anita Augspurg, Ehe?, 19.
240 ‘chance of success’: Bebel, Frau im Sozialismus, 35.
241 ‘of stupidity begins’: ibid, 2.
241 ‘our sexual misery’: Grete Meisel-Hess, Die sexuelle Krise, 397; transl. Harriet Anderson, Utopian Feminism, New Haven, 1992, 182.
241 ‘of this society’: ibid., 182-4.
243 ‘of former circumstances’: ibid., 103.
243 ‘to normative violence’: Mayreder, 90.
243 ‘first social order’: ibid., 109-10.
243 ‘canon of masculinity’: ibid., 122.
243 ‘they are supposed to be’: ibid., 199.
243 ‘influences are on the increase’: ibid., 105.
243 ‘destruction of masculinity’: ibid., 106.
243 ‘nervous exhaustion’: ibid., 118.
245 ‘not as individuals’: Otto Weininger, Geschlecht und Charakter, Vienna, 1923, 402.
245 ‘most of them puny-looking’: Stites, Women’s Liberation, 208.
10. 1909: The Cult of the Fast Machine
255 ‘albatross with his airplanes’: Uzanne, La Locomotion, 244, translation in Kern, Culture of Time and Space, 128.
255 around the turn of the century: Kern, Culture of Time and Space, 110.
256 ‘out of phase with his own’: Mirbeau, La 628 E-8, 7, translation in Kern, Culture of Time and Space, 113.
256 to drive around the globe: Deutsche Zeitung, Nr. 46, 21 March 1902, 1.
257 new automobile fad, le camping: Deutsche Revue, July 1912, July 1910, July 1906.
259 ‘fails to evoke’: quoted after Kern, Culture of Time and Space, 118.
260 ‘grown men points’: H. G. Wells, Selected Short Stories, London, 1927, 86.
260 ‘Anaemic cockneymen’: ibid., 105.
260 ‘a minute will reverse’: T. S. Eliot, ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’.
261 ‘crushed under the wheels’: Vladimir Mayakovsky, originally published in Nov’, 16 November 1914; here translated by Helen Segall in The Ardis Anthology of Russian Futurism, ed. Carl Proffer and Ellendea Proffer, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1980, 187-8.
