Beckerman, Gal. _The Quiet Before_. First edition. New York: Crown, 2022. # Progressive Summary # Key Points ## Patience ## Coherence --- ![[Chartism]] --- ## Imagination When Marinetti wrote his "Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism" in 1909, it was the first significant manifesto since Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote the *Communist Manifesto* in 1848. # Resonances # Oppositions # Questions / Comments Letters were often copied and passed on beyond their original recipient. This was like the Internet, way before the Internet. One of Peiresc's letters from 1645 reads: "“I opened a letter that Mr. Diodati [Paris] sent you, which included one that Mr. Schickard [Tübingen] wrote to Bernegger [printer in Strasbourg], asking him to send you his observations of the eclipse. I showed it to Gaultier [Aix] and asked Garrat [Agarrat, Peiresc’s secretary] to have him [Gaultier] compare it with your observation. I used the same channel to send a second letter from Galileo, the original of which I had sent to Diodati and the copy of another letter from Galileo that Rossi [Galileo’s relative in Lyons] sent.” # Quotes