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New YEAR, New HOME for my blog

Posted on January 1, 2011 by renatestendhal

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 # 38

Posted on March 19, 2010 by renatestendhal

Gertrude is always good for another controversy. This one was not her fault. (Is any one?) I wanted to cheer up my Friends group on She Writes with the “Gertrude über Alice” (read: Alles) cartoon of my latest blog, donated … Continue reading →

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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 36

Posted on February 19, 2010 by renatestendhal

“If nobody asked the question, what would the answer be.” Blogging always asks a question without ever asking it directly — and often there is no answer to the question not asked. I look at the blogs, the many blogs … Continue reading →

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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 34

Posted on February 11, 2010 by renatestendhal

With Valentine’s tyranny waiting in the wings, I can’t resist to come back to Gertrude and SEX. It’s my hobby horse, as you know by now, my violon d’Ingres in French. What I would wish for the ALA conference on … Continue reading →

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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 30

Posted on January 28, 2010 by renatestendhal

What’s she cooking up? “Grammar means that it has to be prepared and cooked…” (How to Write) There are always surprises. Until a few days ago, I had never seen this photo of Gert and Alice in their country kitchen, … Continue reading →

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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 28

Posted on January 20, 2010 by renatestendhal

I promised to give you another few stunning examples of Gertrude’s sense of a paragraph: “I began to get enormously interested in hearing how everybody said the same thing over and over again with infinite variations but over and over … Continue reading →

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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 27

Posted on January 12, 2010 by renatestendhal

The young woman with the dreamy eyes took her first creative writing class at Radcliffe (then called Harvard Annex) with the poet William Vaughn Moody, in 1894. She wrote a number of compositions that already show some eccentricity, if not … Continue reading →

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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 22

Posted on December 5, 2009 by renatestendhal

“It was pleasant being a lion…” This was how I read this picture, taken in 1935 on Stein’s lecture tour through America: “She is a celebrity by then, a ‘lion,’ and shows the same unbending refusal to please anyone but … Continue reading →

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Why Quote Something If It Can Be Done: Misquoting Gertrude Stein?

Posted on October 29, 2009 by renatestendhal

I stand accused of having done her wrong. A commentator with an interesting name commented on my blog post # 4, where I quoted “A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.” Comment by Alice Toklas 1 … Continue reading →

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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 7

Posted on October 23, 2009 by renatestendhal

Post # 7. “America is my country and Paris is my home town.” Gertrude is almost arriving at New York — tomorrow, exactly 75 years ago!! New clothes for the famous lecture tour were a must. And so were new … Continue reading →

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