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Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946

"Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories"

Clellan is deciding that forgetting is something,
that remembering is something, that arranging is something. Clellan is
feeling that he is deciding. Clellan is deciding what he is deciding.
Clellan is feeling that being that one is being that one. Clellan is
deciding to be arranging that being that one is being that one.
If his contentment had been greater, if Larr's contentment had been
greater he would not have been content and he would not have been
content because of reasons he could know if he could know that he was
not content. His contentment would not be greater if he knew that he was
not content because he would then know something of what he did not
invent. He did not invent all that he came to tell that he had invented.
No he had not invented those things, he had not done any of the things
he came to understand in inventing them, in doing them. He did think. He
thought very well and in thinking very well he did invent thoughts and
in inventing thoughts he told all of them and having told all the
thoughts he had invented he told what those thoughts would invent and
had invented and he had not invented what he told that he had invented,
and they had not been invented those things, they would have been
invented if he had had thoughts that would invent them and they were
things that were invented and he told how he would have invented them if
he had told all that he had told and he invented all the thoughts he
said he invented.


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