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  1. Jun 2024
    1. procreation

      Would it be ok to refer to my book here, where I have argued this? See: Laura Scuriatti, Mina Loy's Critical Modernism (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2019), pp. 46-60.

    1. LOVE hands him a pair of boxing-gloves—red flannel hearts—and puts on a pair herself with which every point made is emphasised by a psychological blow

      italics except for LOVE

    2. with an off-hand gesture he draws LOVE out of his pocket, scattering the newspapers, shakes LOVE out and stands her on the floor in front of him, taking her measure with a masterful eye as she pulls herself together

      italics, except for LOVE (twice)

    3. FUTURISM picks up LOVE and a handful of newspapers and stuffs them altogether into his pocket—which he slaps with a bang.[7] INMATES and MEN gradually filter back.

      everything in italics except: FUTURISM, LOVE, INMATES, MEN

    4. FUTURISM sits fixing her with theatrically amative eyes—LOVE smiles and wails like a cat on the tiles—her criticism

      everything in italics except FUTURISM and LOVE

    5. Try putting glue on the seats.

      We could add the following footnote here: This refers to various pranks and strategies that the Futurists used in order to provoke audiences at their "serate" (evening events) and create brawls. (LS)

    6. conjuring commercial traveler.

      it should be traveller (British spelling, as in Crangle)

      add footnote here: In the poem "Lion's Jaws", a satire of the Futurist movement, and especially of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's masculinist and misogynist postures, Loy refers to the figure of "Raminetti" (clearly referring to Marinetti) as a "conjuring commercial traveller". (Loy, Mina. “Lion's Jaws”, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy, edited by Roger Conover. New York, Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1996, pp. 46-50, p. 48). (LS)

    7. (

      delete this bracket - no line break. in Crangle it reads: (a composite person called WORLD-FLESH-AND-DEVIL they are accompanied by two inspectors)

    1. Loy met the Florentine branch of the Futurists in the Caffé Giubbe Rosse: they used to meet in the back room and were famously very loud and quarrelsome

      delete endnote

    2. his rediscovery

      Could we add a refence to my book here, where I write about this issue? Also, if we want to keep our initials for the notes, this would end with: (LS). The reference to my book is: See L. Scuriatti, Mina Loy's Critical Modernism (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2019), pp. 113-116.

    3. into Arabic

      it should read "into the Arabic" - although it sounds wrong. Either we correct it and add [sic], or insert an excision sign to show that we have intervened onto the text

    1. The Sacred Prostitute

      Consistency issue: in the previous parts of the book, the two plays (The Pamperers and The Sacred Prostitute) are in inverted commas, not in italics, whereas they are in italics here and elsewhere.