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 curious little thing is that a substantial piece of cauliflower shows
in the nose and shows so well that there is no smell. A very curious
thing is that a whole name means no more than if there is success, not a
bit more place is used by those using more than by those receiving
company. It makes every one glad to see the genius and the energy and
the simple way that a thing is put down. Why is there any reason that
there should be hesitation. Is it necessary that one seeing the time not
wasted should arrange that there is no more fatigue. Is it singular that
the afternoon and the evening follow the morning. Does follow mean
coming after and why if it does, why is there no reason. It is not
especial that no more reason is curious than a large picture. A single
moment and no catastrophe does show that care makes any one nervous.
There is no time to use speed. The promise will be kept and sometime any
little word will be the one written.
Once upon a time when there was a word which went there once upon a time
there was a pillow. A pillow is not whiter when there is a moon than it
is when there is paper. Once when there was more extravagance than there
is blaming once there was a door and that was made of white lining. This
had under it what did not disappoint a chicken. This is not industry it
is regularity.
Four sses are not singular. Four sses are not at all singular and the
fashion which is changing shows itself then, it shows in there being
four and many more, it shows itself in blame, in expectation, in direct
appeal, in singular ways of establishing a result, in certain very
particular investigations and hopes and determinations and even it does
even sometimes show itself in audacity and in endearments. All the time
that this is happening there is result and anticipation.
The faithful prosecution of an intermediate expression between
obligation and restraint and reverberation is such that the mornings
could be used.
To go into the mud and spill potatoes, to go into the water and pick up
water, to go everywhere and wash a petunia, this is a disgrace, it is
such a disgrace that there is no meaning in closing and yet, why forget,
when to forget is one thing, which to forget is something, the simple
time to select a new example is in the same way. This happened and the
end of it all was that any way there was no reason why any establishment
should have a way to pray. This did not mean that there was any reason
in eye sight, this means simply that the whole thing is not any of the
appurtenance of the register. The time when that is mentioned. The time
how, that is mentioned. All the time there is mentioned that the list is
long.
A dot in the center and that which is proportioned if it is made of
lead, if it is easily made is so impressionable. There is no greater
satisfaction than in everything.
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