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Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946

"Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories"


A goose-girl is not a girl that geese regard and explain, a goose girl
is a real wonder. To sustain a breath is not so dignified as to laugh
longer and to do that with that wail is the principal task of more
plucking.
A card of time means that all that is shown sparkles. There is no way to
have it more than satin. The black and the white and the mixture which
is ermine is enchanting when there is more dress than linen. There is no
lining when the form is slender. There is every graceful date when the
hair is washed and there is no hairpin tickling. A little rubber would
not make it neater.
A lovely love is sitting and she sits there now she is in bed, she is in
bed. A lovely love is cleaner when she is so clean, she is so clean, she
is all mine. A ovely love does not use any way to say all day she is to
say that all the day is all there is to say. A lovely love is something
and there is no hand-writing, it is that there is no printing. A lovely
love is there to be the rest of all there is to put into that which is
what there is there.
When there is no astonishment there is that happening. To choose looking
at the appetising ending is not a sign of predisposition. It does not
defy accomplishment. It lingers there.
Not to rub away is to let it stay and surely that is neat and sweet. The
two which makes enough is what is that and the question is that it comes
in the morning.


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