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Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946

"Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories"


Largely pressing the separation and then each one is not visiting and
then there being any more and then the nice present, this is not the
secret of that life.
Not a describer nor a ruler nor a mingler and yet there is not a
difference that is not greater. Feeling that the expression is the one
that is creating and there is no disturbing all distraction, having the
tensing of the intention that is resurging and there is then no moving
that is not eventualising. Not daring and not curving and not drowning
and not plunging and alluding to nothing is all the way. Abandoning and
pasting and arising and not drying and bemoaning the plantation is not
every way.
A shout is not a noise when there is no reverberation. A shout is not
subdued and the pushing has some resistance when there is not too much
help. He did not faint away. He did not faint any.
He was the salt of that pepper and there was no mixture. The beginning
was that he saw that and made it taste the stronger. The end was that he
used that and it was never weaker. He was not outlandish.
He who had that meaning was averting no inundation. He was not so old
that he was older and he had never been always the same. He repeated
that story.
There are a pretence of destruction and this does not mean that not all
of it is destroyed, it does mean the end of that which is not a verdict.


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