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Concrete Espresso

Red blue ball does this is how I press out as a yellow cat the clock kicks about as an Englishmen fishing in a drought purple circle bounces how to pronounce pounce expression’s bored like straw lines cast in the perfect angle time stands still

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John Beam

Date: 1/15/2016 10:54:00 AM

The poet Ezra Pound's 1934 injunction to "Make it new!" was the touchstone of the movement's approach towards what it saw as the now obsolete culture of the past. In this spirit, its innovations, like the stream-of-consciousness novel, atonal (or pantonal) and twelve-tone music, divisionist painting and abstract art, all had precursors in the 19th century.