'A complex artist like the painter Paul Klee and a programmatic one like Loos - both reject the traditional, solemn, noble image of man, festooned with all the sacrioficial offerings of the past.' They turn instead to the naked man of the contemporary world who lies screaming like a newborn babe in the daipers of the present. No one has greeted this present with greater joy and hilarity than Paul Scheerbart... Scheerbart is interested in inquiring how our telescopes, our airplanes, our rockets can transform human beings as they have been up to now into completely new, lovable, and interesting creatures. Morover these creatures talk in a completely new language. And what is crucial about this language is its arbitrary, constructed nature, in contrast to organic language...

... he placed the greatest value in housing his "people" - and, following this model, his fellow citizens - in buildings benefitting their station, in adjustable, movable glass-covered dwellings of the kind since built by Loos and Le Corbusier...

Poverty of experience. This should not be understood to mean that people are yearning for new experience. No, they long to free themselves from experience... No one feels more caught out than they by Scheerbart's words: "You are all so tired, just because you have failed to concentrate your thoughts on a simple but ambitious plan."' (733-734)