Gertrude Stein
May 28, 2003 7:12 AM Subscribe
The Unforgettable Gertrude Stein: A charming miscellany of first encounters with the fascinating writer and personality, compiled by Dana Cook. [From The New Yorker's excellent web guide to Gertrude Stein .]
Edna Ferber quotes Ms. Stein as saying: "If everybody loved everybody there would be no war." That's about the level of Gertrude Stein's profundity. Of all the no-talents ever thrown up by modernism, she may be the Queen. The punishment for liking Gertrude Stein is that you have to read her. Her only skill was serving as a model for Picasso's famous portrait -- and even then, he could only finish the thing once he'd sent her away. Her incoherence is contagious. Just thinking about her, I lose the ability to compose a cogent paragraph.
posted by Faze at 2:11 PM on May 28, 2003
posted by Faze at 2:11 PM on May 28, 2003
Gertrude Stein says "that's enough"
(I know that that's not enough now)
dumb lyrics, I know, but they sound MUCH better when sung.
posted by Vidiot at 9:44 PM on June 1, 2003
(I know that that's not enough now)
dumb lyrics, I know, but they sound MUCH better when sung.
posted by Vidiot at 9:44 PM on June 1, 2003
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(that's a joke kids)
posted by Pollomacho at 12:16 PM on May 28, 2003