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
They did lightly what was not lightly done and they spoke then, they had
the reception of exchanging something and they were meaning what was
happening. They did not endow the rest with everything. They had not all
the change when they left each one where that one was when he began.
They did not manage to avoid all the pieces and they knew enough to be
interested and they were not foolish, they were not busy with nothing,
they did the same, they had enough of a way, they were not having any
habit, they did it all, they said enough, they worked then, they
arranged what they came to be selecting to be arranging. They were not
suffering in refusing what they were not intending to be seeing. They
were all there.
He who said something said it in the way that did not show all there was
of what had to be. He was not reckless. He was not uncertain. He said it
all in explaining that which was there and he explained it so that there
could be that explanation. It was all there and complete. He went on. He
was not the half of all there was as there were some and he was the
whole of it all. That was not enough. Anything stopped. That was not
undertaken. He had the meaning.
Conversation was not the reproduction of listening and talking and this
was said and when there was more there was some understanding of that.
It is apparent that when each one is sitting where it is cold that the
lamp which is burning is the lamp they are using. This has been and will
be the habit that has not that meaning.
All the best that came when all that came was all that came was said
when each one said that they each read and said what they each said and
they each read. The basket that did not remain on the floor was not
empty when all that was thrown away was put in it. The alarming way that
each one did not throw away what was taken away did not dissatisfy every
one. There could be conversation.
He said that he had put the piece that was there when he went away in
the same place that it was now when it was there. His wife said that she
remembered something. He did not then say more than he said. Not any one
left the room. They all were busy.
He did not live by the light that there was when he went to live where
he stayed some months. He talked about everything. This was not needed
then but it was a very good thing as a way to begin and to have begun.
He was satisfying.
The darkness was the same when he came in and when he went out and he
talked about that when he talked about everything. He said he had had a
little girl. He said the whole family were not there. He did not say
that he needed everything. This was not what he said when he said what
he said and he said what he said. He was not the only one and yet that
was enough, that he was the one. There were some who said the same. He
was not one.
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