Before going down among you to pull out your decaying teeth, your running ears,
your tounges full of sores,
Before breaking your putrid bones,your too fatted liver, your ignoble spleen and your diabetic kidneys,
Before opening your cholera-infested belly and taking out for use as fertilizer
Before tearing out your ugly sexual organ, incontinent and slimy,mathematical and poetic metaphysical pepper and cucumbers,
Before extinguishing your appetite for beauty, ecstasy, sugar, philosophy,
Before disinfecting you with vitriol, cleansing you and shellackingyou with passion,
Before all that,
We shall take a big antiseptic bath,
And we warn you
We are murderers.
(Manifesto signed by Ribemont-Dessaignes and read by seven people at the demonstration at the Grand Palais des Champs Elysées, Paris, 5 February 1920.)
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