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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 30
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 # 29
The deep question, What have we learned from writing in the past year? is still drawing circles and surprising answers among the She Writers. Here is one from Gertrude: what she learned about writing from her dog, Basket: “Basket although … Continue reading
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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 28
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
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 # 26
After saying “Melly Christmas” with Alice (Blog # 17), it’s time to say Zappy New Year! A little time-out was needed. Or, if you like, a comma. “A long complicated sentence should force itself upon you, make you know yourself … Continue reading
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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # ?
For the beginning of a busy week, a busy year: “It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.” “The world is covered all over with people … Continue reading
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