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 little way is longer than waiting to bow. Not bowing is longer than
waiting longer. It would sadly distress some powder if looking out was
continual and sitting first was happening and leaving first was
persisting. It would not change the color, it would not harmonise with
yellow, it would not necessitate reddening, it would not destroy
smiling, it would not enlarge stepping, it would not widen a chair or
arrange a cup or conclude a sailing, it would not disappoint a brown or
a pink or a golden anticipation, it would not deter a third one from
looking, it would not help a second one to fasten a straighter collar or
a first one to dress with less decision, it would not distress Emma or
stop her from temperately waiting, it would not bring reasoning to have
less meaning, it would not make telling more exciting, it would not make
leaving necessitate losing what would be missing, it would though always
mean that three and one are not always all that remain if ten remain and
eight are coming.
They always thought that they did all eat what was said to be what was
given to them. They did not fail themselves then.
If the color is not dark and it is dark but is not predestined, if the
color is dark and the passing away of walking is not too quick then all
that was expected from asking was that what had been done had not had
any way of laughing. That was what was left when there had been all that
was not meaning that what was dark had come to be dark as it was dark as
it had been dark. It was not lighter.
The only feeling that is she is the way she did not see and she did lean
she did quite lean alone. She did not desert the reward and she had it
all and she did bow and there was there where she went there was there
certainly all of not needing to be refusing having her relieve saying
good evening. She did not have it all on and there could be more and
often when she was there she wore that which was where she was and it
was not all cut from the same place and that was not ceasing to be
intending to be completing being leaning and she was leaning and she was
not refusing needing to be keeping addressing bowing. She magnified
repeating being existing in repeating. She did not repeat speaking. She
did not deny good evening. She did not repeat leaning alone in leaning
where she was not without not leaning being existing.
All who stayed long enough and talked said what they said. He who talked
did not say what he said because he had been the one who had come to
stay away. And this was not anything. He liked having it and he liked
asking to leave it.
All of them were not alone. The way to be alone, the way to stand and
walk, the way to sit and look, the way to talk, all of it is not
beguiling and passing away is a way to complain.
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