In one of the more memorable anecdotes from Wyndham Lewis’s first autobiography, Blasting and Bombardiering, the Vorticist recounts meeting his Futurist counterpart, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, in a lavatory (Marinetti had gone to wash after a particularly energetic lecture during which had "drenched himself in sweat"). With characteristically thrasonic gusto, the Italian declares that Lewis is …
