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
If some one came and another one came and some one said and another one
said and some one heard and another one heard and some one saw and
another one saw then there would be enough who were dead if everybody
came to be dead and there would be enough being living if every one were
living and certainly some did not see everything and some did not do
everything and some did not hear everything and some did not see
everything and one said what another said and one saw what another saw
and one did what another did and one heard what another heard and one
came and another came and one left and another left and if everybody did
what they did and anybody came and if they did not see what they saw and
if they heard what they heard then certainly something had happened and
something having happened some said what they said.
It was a happy way the way he stayed all day any day and he said, what
did he say, he said that he had gone and he had seen and that he would
do what he liked to do and he liked to do what he had arranged to feel
he would do when he saw all there was to see.
In looking for everything and finding everything and asking any one to
leave all that they had and to give all they had some are seeing that
they are seeing all that there is to be seen.
It was not satisfying, not upsetting, not amusing, not perplexing to say
all that is being said about any one having been feeling what that one
was feeling.
Polly and she was not using all she had bought Polly was offering and
forgetting to give what she would give if she had had packed what she
had taken up to pack. Polly did not remember everything.
Anne Helbing is standing. Anne Helbing in standing was wearing what some
would not be needing to be wearing if they could stand without wearing
them. Anne Helbing had them on and she was standing, Anne Helbing was
sitting, Anne had them on and was sitting. Anne told some one that she
had them on. Anne did not come back again and she was not suffering and
she was working. Anne was standing and sitting and was wearing the
things she needed for standing.
George did not come when he had not had all that he would have had if he
had gone everywhere where he could go. He found a thing that he gave
every one. He did not take what he intended to take.
Henns was prospering that is to say he had a wife and a baby and he had
been sick. This was not all he had in being living and he thought about
it and he did all that he did in getting what he got.
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