Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein: With Two Shorter StoriesStein, Gertrude
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Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein: With Two Shorter Stories
Stein, Gertrude
Experimental fiction, American
He who says he has come and is going is the one who has come and is
going. He says that he is going because he has been coming. He says that
he has been coming. He says that all who are coming are coming and all
of them will be going and all of them are going. He says that he has
begun not to go. He says that he can begin to come and begin to go. He
says that he came very slowly and is going gradually and that he is not
coming, he says he is going, he says that he has just been told all that
he was not told when he was told that he was coming in the way that he
was coming and would be going in any way that he would be going. He says
that he has heard all that he can hear and that he will hear all that he
is going to hear and he says that there is a way to come and a way to
hear what he will hear. He is not going. He says he is going. He is not
coming. He says he is coming. He has come and he has gone. Hopefully he
knows all he hears. Desperately he hears what he knows. Quietly he
repeats what he will hear. He never asks whether he is going or coming.
He always hears that he is coming, he always hears that he is going. He
once heard that he had had what he had and he had what he had and he
would have what he had and that he might have what he did have and he
said that that was what he was hearing when he heard what was said and
he knew what he had and he said that he heard what he heard and that he
was coming and he said he knew he had been going. He heard all who spoke
when he was hearing all he knew. This is Walter.
If he were happy there he would be happier there than any where. If he
were succeeding there he would be certain to be recognised as having
done more than he would have done if he had not succeeded there. He
learnt what he learnt and he lost what he lost when he knew that he had
come to know that he was seeing and had been seeing what he had been
learning.
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