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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 60
A sketch by Tom Hachtman/> Aquarie Gertrude comes up for another spin around the virtual sun of birthdays this very day today. And a great birthday it is. 2011 is promising a big comeback for Stein — in the California … Continue reading
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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 59
One of the mysteries of Paris Was A Woman: Who is the charming elderly gentleman who looks like Dirk Bogarde in Death In Venice, and who talks with some rather intimate knowledge (and a bit of tender malice) of Gertrude … Continue reading
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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 58
Paris Was A Woman If you missed Paris the Luminous Years on PBS and (and missed the snow falling on Gertrude’s Montparnasse in my last Stein post), there is a there there to console you: Paris Was A Woman, the … Continue reading
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New YEAR, New HOME for my blog
Why Do Something If It Can Be Done moves out today into the blogosphere on its own, after having been embedded in http://www.shewrites.com since its conception, in October 2009. It also occasionally appeared on my website news page http://www.renatestendhal.com/news and … Continue reading
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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 57
Gertrude Stein in “Paris the Luminous Years” on PBS What do Gertrude Stein, Picasso, Janet Flanner, Nathalie Barney, Hemingway, Stravinsky, Chagall, Sylvia Beach, Joyce, Pound, Diaghilev, Nijinsky, Sarah Bernhardt, Diego Rivera, Djuna Barnes, Isidora Duncan have in common? They all … Continue reading
Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 56
Entering fall in high fashion? Dressed in Gertrude Stein from head to toe? Coat, dress, petticoat, handbag and dessous: http://www.shewrites.com/profiles/blogs/why-do-something-if-it-can-be-60
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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 55
On our pilgrimage to the sites of Stein’s “mystery” novel, the impression of sadness, the all-pervasive dread of French country life deepened at the Hotel Pernollet. (Here, as the center of the world, on a postcard from the 80s.) Situated … Continue reading
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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 54
Our sleuthing began 75 km east of Lyon on an empty country road, between rabbit cages and sad bistros. Whereas nowadays a plaque guides the pilgrims in the village of Bilignin, back then, when I translated Stein’s mystery story, you … Continue reading
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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 53
Translating Stein’s murder mystery Blood on the Dining-Room Floor was very much a case of transleaping. I had to leap into a language, German, that gives every noun, article and personal pronoun one of three possible genders: feminine, masculine, neuter. … Continue reading
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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 52
After the marker of 5O Stein blogs — talking about Stein’s one and only writing block –- did I contract one myself? No, for me, too, writing went on, on another page. Finishing a novel, writing about opera. Stein was … Continue reading
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