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Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946

"Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories"

They were not
suffering in refusing what they were not intending to be seeing. They
were all there.
He who said something said it in the way that did not show all there was
of what had to be. He was not reckless. He was not uncertain. He said it
all in explaining that which was there and he explained it so that there
could be that explanation. It was all there and complete. He went on. He
was not the half of all there was as there were some and he was the
whole of it all. That was not enough. Anything stopped. That was not
undertaken. He had the meaning.
Conversation was not the reproduction of listening and talking and this
was said and when there was more there was some understanding of that.
It is apparent that when each one is sitting where it is cold that the
lamp which is burning is the lamp they are using. This has been and will
be the habit that has not that meaning.
All the best that came when all that came was all that came was said
when each one said that they each read and said what they each said and
they each read. The basket that did not remain on the floor was not
empty when all that was thrown away was put in it. The alarming way that
each one did not throw away what was taken away did not dissatisfy every
one. There could be conversation.
He said that he had put the piece that was there when he went away in
the same place that it was now when it was there.


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