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Authors: Gertrude Stein
Any time is the half of all the noise and there is not that disappointment. There is no distraction. An argument is clear.
Packing is not the same when the place which has all that is not emptied. There came there the hall and this was not the establishment. It had not all the meaning.
Blankets are warmer in the summer and the winter is not lonely. This does not assure the forgetting of the intention when there has been and there is every way to send some. There does not happen to be a dislike for water. This is not heartening.
As the expedition is without the participation of the question there will be nicely all that energy. They can arrange that the little color is not bestowed. They can leave it in regaining that intention. It is mostly repaid. There can be
an irrigation. They can have the whole paper and they send it in some package. It is not inundated.
A bottle that has all the time to stand open is not so clearly shown when there is green color there. This is not the only way to change it. A little raw potato and then all that softer does happen to show that there has been enough. It changes the expression.
It is not darker and the present time is the best time to agree. This which has been feeling is what has the appetite and the patience and the time to stay. This is not collaborating.
All the attention is when there is not enough to do. This does not determine a question. The only reason that there is not that pressure is that there is a suggestion. There are many going. A delight is not bent. There had been that little wagon. There is that precision when there has not been an imagination. There has not been that kind abandonment. Nobody is alone.
If the spread that is not a piece removed from the bed is likely to be whiter then certainly the sprinkling is not drying. There can be the message where the print is pasted and this does not mean that there is that esteem. There can be the likelihood of all the days not coming later and this will not deepen the collected dim version.
It is a gnarled division that which is not any obstruction and the forgotten swelling is certainly attracting, it is attracting the whiter division, it is not sinking to be growing, it is not darkening to be disappearing, it is not aged to be annoying. There can not be sighing. This is this bliss.
Not to be wrapped and then to forget undertaking, the credit and then the resting of that interval, the pressing of the sounding when there is no trinket is not altering, there can be pleasing classing clothing.
A sap that is that adaptation is the drinking that is not increasing. There can be that lack of quivering. That does not originate every invitation. There is not wedding introduction. There is not all that filling. There is the climate that is not existing there is that plainer. There is the likeliness lying in liking likely likeliness. There is that dispensation. There
is the paling that is not reddening, there is the reddening that is not reddening, there is that protection, there is that destruction, there is not the present lessening there is the argument of increasing. There is that that is not that which is that resting. There is not that occupation. There is that particular half of directing that there is that particular whole direction that is not all the measure of any combination. Gliding is not heavily moving. Looking is not vanishing. Laughing is not evaporating. There can be the climax. There can be the same dress. There can be an old dress. There can be the way there is that way there is that which is not that charging what is a regular way of paying. There has been William. All the time is likely. There is the condition. There has been admitting. There is not the print. There is that smiling. There is the season. There is that where there is not that which is where there is what there is which is beguiling. There is a paste.
Abandon a garden and the house is bigger. This is not smiling. This is comfortable. There is the comforting of predilection. An open object is establishing the loss that there was when the vase was not inside the place. It was not wandering.
A plank that was dry was not disturbing the smell of burning and altogether there was the best kind of sitting there could never be all the edging that the largest chair was having. It was not pushed. It moved then. There was not that lifting. There was that which was not any contradiction and there was not the bland fight that did not have that regulation. The contents were not darkening. There was not that hesitation. It was occupied. That was not occupying any exception. Any one had come. There was that distribution.
There was not that velvet spread when there was a pleasant head. The color was paler. The moving regulating is not a distinction. The place is there.
Likely there is not that departure when the whole place that has that texture is so much in the way. It is not there to stay. It does not change that way. A pressure is not later. There is the same. There is not the shame. There is that pleasure.
In burying that game there is not a change of name. There
is not perplexing and co-ordination. The toy that is not round has to be found and looking is not straining such relation. There can be that company. It is not wider when the length is not longer and that does make that way of staying away. Every one is exchanging returning. There is not a prediction. The whole day is that way. Any one is resting to say that the time which is not reverberating is acting in partaking.
A walk that is not stepped where the floor is covered is not in the place where the room is entered. The whole one is the same. There is not any stone. There is the wide door that is narrow on the floor. There is all that place.
There is that desire and there is no pleasure and the place is filling the only space that is placed where all the piling is not adjoining. There is not that distraction.
Praying has intention and relieving that situation is not solemn. There comes that way.
The time that is the smell of the plain season is not showing the water is running. There is not all that breath. There is the use of the stone and there is the place of the stuff and there is the practice of expending questioning. There is not that differentiation. There is that which is in time. There is the room that is the largest place when there is all that is where there is space. There is not that perturbation. The legs that show are not the certain ones that have been used. All legs are used. There is no action meant.
The particular space is not beguiling. There is that participation. It is not passing any way. It has that to show. It is why there is no exhalation.
There is all there is when there has all there has where there is what there is. That is what is done when there is done what is done and the union is won and the division is the explicit visit. There is not all of any visit.
(A Political Caricature)
This poem originally appeared in
V
ANITY
F
AIR
,
June 1917. Owing to “lack of space” thirty-five lines were omitted. When the poem was printed as a pamphlet later in 1917, illustrated with “a political caricature of Henry McBride by Jules Pascin,” these lines were restored. A note in the pamphlet advises the reader that this work has been referred to as a portrait of Henry McBride, the noted art critic. “It is in fact,” the note continues, “a genre picture and Mr. McBride is but one of the personages. The ‘political’ quality of Miss Stein’s caricature will not be misapprehended by students of her work.”
Can you be more confusing by laughing. Do say yes.
We are extra. We have the reasonableness of a woman and we say we do not like a room. We wish we were married.
Why do you believe in me.
Including all that is sold, you mean three pictures, including all that is sold why cannot you give me that.
I do give it to you.
Thank you, I was only joking.
But I do mean it.
Thank you very much.
PAGE II
Can you swim in a lake.
We can.
Then do so.
PAGE III
Have you an automobile.
PAGE IV
The queen has.
We asked for one.
They cannot send it now.
Cannot they.
We will see.
PAGE XXXIX
In memory of the Englishwoman.
We will buy it together.
Not that Englishwoman.
No not that time or that one.
PAGE VI
We wish to go there.
Can they accept us.
We marry.
They ask.
PAGE VII
In the middle of the exercise.
We exercise.
We are successful.
PAGE VIII
Can you speak.
The dog.
Can you bear to tear the skirt.
PAGE IX
Lighting.
We can see to the lighting.
PAGE X
Can a Jew be wild.
PAGE XI
A great many settlers have mercy. Of course they do to me.
You are proud. I am proud of my courage.
PAGE XII
Can you find me in a home.
We can all find you in a hole. I hope not.
Then keep warm. I cannot have that announcement. Very well then elect him. We can be suggestive.
PAGE XIII
Can you finish for me.
PAGE XIV
In the midst of refusing I have been asked to go on. We hope so.
PAGE XV
Can you wish me to think.
PAGE XVI
In the next name you mean the wife in the next name there is a mention of a ring. In the next name they have means.
What can you do to relate it.
Many ready papers many papers are taken there.
You mean they made the mistake.
They made the mistake of choosing that silver.
Little silver little silver.
PAGE XVII
I’m coming to grieve.
PAGE XVIII
I cannot find a real dressmaker.
Neither can I.
PAGE XIX
In the little while in which I say stop it you are not spoiled.
PAGE XX
Can you think of lingering. You mean as to weight. Why yes I feel that. Can you think of dwindling.
Can you.
PAGE XXI
In the midst of the fortnight what was the wish.
We did not say others. Nor did he.
Indeed he was not observed. You mean in the time.
In the day time and at night.
And in the evening.
PAGE XXII
Believe me in everything.
PAGE XXIII
I can go.
Don’t remind the English.
PAGE XXIV
You mean of everything.
PAGE XXV
It is wonderful the way I am not interested.
What can you do.
I can answer any question.
Very well answer this.
Who is Mr. McBride.
PAGE XXVI
It is found out.
Not by me.
PAGE XXVII
Leave me to see.
PAGE XXVIII
I told you that you were told.
PAGE XXIX
It is outrageous to mention a hotel.
PAGE XXX
Can you please me with kisses.
In France we are found.
We are found in France.
PAGE XXXI
I cannot destroy blandishments.
That is not the word you meant to use. I meant to
say that being indeed convinced of the necessity of seeing them swim I believe in their following. Do you believe in their following.
PAGE XXXII
Can you think in meaning to sell well. We can all think separately. Can you think in meaning to be checquered. I can answer for the news. Of course you can answer for the news.
PAGE XXXIII
In the midst of that rain.
In the midst of that rain there was a wing. And he was not sorry. Who can be sorry there. We are.
Yes lamb.
Roger.
PAGE XXXIV
Not necessarily a deception.
PAGE XXXV
Can you speak to me.
I can speak to you.
I believe in the book about England.
PAGE XXXVI
In leaning grass in leaning grass.
Yes in leaning grass.
Can you widen rivers there.
PAGE XXXVII
Can you see Cook.
Can you hear it turn.
I used to say where.
Now it is in machinery in that machinery. They do not deplore what the war.
PAGE XXVIII
Can you candidly say that of him.
PAGE XXXIX
Why am I so sleepy.
PAGE XL
Can you excuse any one.
PAGE XLI
Fifty boxes of matches wax matches which burn very well and strike very well and have no smell. Do you mean less smell than others.
PAGE XLII
You say he is that sort of a person. He has been here again. And asked about pitchers.
PAGE XLIII
Can he ask about pitchers.
PAGE XLIV
Officers do not kiss soldiers.
What do officers kiss.
Officers kiss the cross. Indeed they do. So do soldiers in passing.
Pass again.
Chrysanthemum.
Was his friend a friend.
PAGE XLV
Can you see him.
PAGE XLVI
Particularly today.
Feel me.
A sentimental face.
Can they say no excuse. Can they say selfish brothers. Do they say we are pleased to have been taught. No they do not do so they have that very negligible quality, the station of Lyons. We were there. And books. Yes books.
You did not understand a laundry woman. Yes women porters. Of course women porters. Why should we be proud. Because it is foolish. It is very foolish to be wrong. In that case may I beg to refer to it. You may.
The French are polite.
A Love Story
Published in Paris in 1926 with lithographic illustrations by Juan Gris, this is an excellent example of Gertrude Stein’s adverbial and participial style. The reader will find a clue to the passage about the “fifteenth of October” in the opening pages of Chapter VII
of T
HE
A
UTOBIOGRAPHY OF
A
LICE
B. T
OKLAS
in this Collection.