The PDF is a performance script. Try reading the following sequence aloud:
Zang-tumb-tumb-zang-zang-túmbb-túmb-zang... Notice how your tongue mimics a machine gun. Increase speed. Stutter on the dash marks. The poem contains instructions like "faster" (più veloce) and "heavy slowness" (lentezza grave). zang tumb tumb pdf
“Zang Tumb Tumb as a Sensory Blueprint of Futurist Warfare” The PDF is a performance script
Open your PDF and zoom in on page 12 or 13 (depending on the scan). Observe: Zang-tumb-tumb-zang-zang-túmbb-túmb-zang
shards of words floating like confetti in the air
Zang tumb tumb zang zang tumb tuuum
Pic pac poom tumb
Tumb tyumb tumb