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
The ones who clap when they laugh and laugh when they look mean that
that they clap when they laugh and laugh when they look.
They all, all who saw while they heard what they heard, all were there
and remained until they were not to stay where they were any longer.
There was enough of all that had been done again to start all those who
were started to come again. They all came again. They came again and
they sat while they heard what they heard and saw all of some of what
they saw.
If some one was not liking doing something more it was not because that
one was feeling all of more being more it was because that one had not
had what she had not had when she had wanted what she had wanted.
Finishing not wasting any little thing is beginning not wasting any
little thing. It is enough that all who are finishing not wasting any
little thing are bowing when what has been living has come to be dead by
rolling over after kneeling. It is enough that some who are finishing
not wasting any little thing are waiting and doing very little moving
when what is dying has not been dead enough to be rolling.
They have something growing those who are finishing wasting any little
thing and if that which is growing is showing it is a completing thing,
a strangely completing thing.
If one has a thing that on the front of him is browning and he is
proceeding and meaning is existing, that is if he is the one and any one
is proceeding then he is the one and he is proceeding.
If they did not like it they would do it and this was not lightly why
there were three of them sitting and this was not uneasily why three
were standing and this was not suddenly why five of them were coming and
this was not entirely why all of them were waiting.
They who had a house and had all of it were the ones who had enough of
it to come out and in and to do it often. If there were three of them
three houses there were all of them all of the three houses three
houses.
If making a little movement such as nodding is done then it is a custom
that any one meeting any one is not talking if they have not met that
one. If they look if every one looks and has not said that he is feeling
then all of them are doing what they are doing because they have not
come to say what they could say if they had come to say what they would
say. This is in a way a pleasant way of walking and disappearing. This
is in a way a way of feeling that what is happening is surprising. This
is in a way a way of not regretting everything.
If in leaving some one is leaving then in having been disappearing some
one has been disappearing and has not been saying that he has said what
he said he would say if he saw what he would have seen if there had been
what there would have been if there was what there was as there was not.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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