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
So much kindness matters when there is the question and what of a
meadow, why is a meadow green. So much kindness matters when there is
repetition and there is repetition in a saloon, there is no dirt
anywhere. All the same the discussion has no resistance and the change
which is announced does not differ in degree from that which accomodated
with regular day-light shows no separation. All the talk is chosen and
all the urging is contemporary.
If the time happened to be pleasant and the rain happened to show that
water was industrious, if all the heat was in a sitting-room and
darkness settled down over a lamp, if all this happened separately there
would be the same astonishment as in every case and yet the whole
endurance of perplexity is under what is not ever over and exasperated.
All the extreme respect is countenanced, all the satin shoes have soles,
all of them and no doubt mixed when mistaken.
A cook does not mean that there is cooking. Cooking is establishing a
regulation which when it is suggested means that anything that is
boiling is not withstanding cooking. In the same way the establishment
of registration that is to say the exercise which makes falling so
uncertain that there is no question, such registration does mean that
finally, very finally there is an excuse for following. In any case
there is so single dislike.
An outline, outline, what causes hesitation, does outline not cause
hesitation, why is certainty disgusted by a waiter, why is the selection
of more than there is not established by selection, why is reasoning
clear, and estimation precise, and articulation unnecessary, and
disintegration avoided, why is it, and more than that when does the
resolution come that shows in a description, when does it come and why
does it determine no return, and what particular transaction shows more
intelligence than ever.
A labor, a labor consists in a list, a labor consists in a reduction in
minerals, a labor consists in authority.
Shame, there is shame, there is a date, there is betrothal, there is
sweetness.
No better juice than lime juice, no better juice than lemon juice, no
juice at all, no water, no sugar, no dirty glass. All this shows
antagonism.
Hide decent pepper, hide nothing clean, hide nothing and the prince is
perfect. Why is there no slender pine-tree, there is no slender
pine-tree because horror is loaded and the principal shadow that
indicates a memory is that which is not any size.
A distance, a distance is that which being placed in the beginning of
lettering shows no more curve than there is in a single sight and this
does not mean dispute, why is there dispute in tears, there is dispute
in tears because dust, no dust is thickened by cream, it is thick, cream
is thick, cream has that color and that odor and that stretch of
especial surprise. How sweet is the light in a ladle and how dark is
daintiness, how sweet is anything and how sweet is that which is
particular.
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