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Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946

"Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories"


It is like this, put a little place that is not empty and not wide and
not urgent, put that little place where it is and do not remember that
there was no opportunity, do this and what is the result, it is done.
A loud name is not one not shouting, not at all, it is so singularly not
feeble that every astonishment is practical.
All the same there is no obligation and in any case why is there fearful
repeating why is there when there is no heaven, why is there. No
question has such an answer, no question is so dissimilar.
To drink and have a drunkard drinking means that no approach is filled
up with tables. It is so spacious to have a table widen, so spacious and
so absorbing and so selective.
Then there is placed there that which if the predicament is not
outdistanced means that there is posthumous fame, this means that there
was a violin and a widow and a melodrama, it means more than that it
means that there was a friend and a closet and most of the coloring
matter, it means more than that it means silence and it does mean a
declaration that has memories, it does mean all that and any one is
frightened any one is frightened who does not remember. To be peaceful,
to be calm, to have a ticket and a feather and to mean that a table is
necessary all this together does arouse resentment. Suppose there was
nothing done at any rate singing is not more than reciting and reciting
is not more than dancing.


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