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Evelyn Estelle Manifestos are fiction dressed up as facts. Particularly in the preambles, manifestos are a type of storytelling. The two famous manifesto templates, “The Communist Manifesto” and “The Founding And Manifesto Of Futurism,’ begin as stories. The communist manifesto begins with a ghost story (a specter is haunting Europe). The futurist manifesto starts with an account of how the manifesto was created (blackening reams of papers with our frenzied writing). The futurist movement also included a car chase (in 1910!). This ended with Marinetti crashing into the ditch and being pulled out by a group of fisherman. From that very spot the futurists proclaimed “Faces smeared with factory mucks, we shout aloud the word Futurism!�”
