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Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946

"Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories"


A strain any strain means that there is no accident and no eye sight,
not even plaintiveness.
To suggest wounding, this is so much mixed with care and with eye
glasses and even with opportunity, can there be negligence when there
are so many willing, can there be mistakes when so many have married and
are marrying, can there be fellow feeling.
A sparkle a single sparkle makes wishing fatal, a single earnest
merriment makes a mark on a slice of something.
Splendor, why is splendor careful, splendor is careful because all the
royal family have been popular. They have been popular how, they have
been popular by actions and by more secrets than are shown by inviting a
single reader. So elementary is the rising sand and the twisting snow,
so vacant is the lot and the fountain, so hurried is the Indian and the
dancer, so neglected is the hurt finger and the duck, so splendid is the
lamp and so urgent is the white horse in winter that surely there can be
no question of discount, there can not even be question of serpents,
there can be a heaven and a heel and there can be lakes of water.
A town a single town, a trunk, a whole and the same trunk, a piece of
colored marble and even a can that is sinister, all this shows whining,
it shows so many sacks and bottles and a finish oftener.
Winding and not clinging, selling and not sobering, reason why is not so
course and broken as yesterday with music.


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