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
A pleasant use of a cockatoo is one that when it began made it begin and
when there was a color made a bright sun. This was so recent that
certainly there did not seem to be any meaning, there did not and what
was the result, any one asking any one is not asking any one that, any
one asking any one is asking any one why is there no retrospection, why
is there more furniture than there was when the houses were empty, why
is silence so anxious to please and so distressing, why is it all so
changed and so simple, why is there such a long shadow. Any one asking
any other one nothing is enjoying plenty of investigation and the
separation of that into retarded and elongated substance and simple
surface does not show any sign of increase. To decrease is not printed,
to decrease is not projected and yet the culmination of resistance is
resting and there is no rest when there is quiet and calm and it is so
restful to rest and not recite a poem. All the same there is no excuse.
A charge to a sausage is the swelling pepper. The lightness and the
relation and the hole all this together makes a seating figure.
The kindness in a circle and the use of a blue green tear makes a
picture so large that there is no astonishment.
If the way to change the face is not used then there is not a bit of use
in restating a comparison. The whole thing is so completely the rest of
the difference that there is no alteration.
A park a whole park is a place with trees and mice and darkness and a
horn and all the best ways of smelling flowers. A park which is not more
is not lovable. It is as simple as that.
If the time is not shown by any change in the outside plum-tree what is
the difference between that and an elbow. There is and doubt which is
dead has died.
A death which is so becoming is so much seen by an emotion. The whole
temper that is changed is not identical.
A smooth and simple trunk with lettering, a bark that has no roughness
and a newspaper all this together makes printing and this is not
disappointing, it is so singular that there are four esses.
It is like this, put a little place that is not empty and not wide and
not urgent, put that little place where it is and do not remember that
there was no opportunity, do this and what is the result, it is done.
A loud name is not one not shouting, not at all, it is so singularly not
feeble that every astonishment is practical.
All the same there is no obligation and in any case why is there fearful
repeating why is there when there is no heaven, why is there. No
question has such an answer, no question is so dissimilar.
To drink and have a drunkard drinking means that no approach is filled
up with tables. It is so spacious to have a table widen, so spacious and
so absorbing and so selective.
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