Monthly Archives: April 2011

Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 64

QUEER GERT Picasso was planning to go to Rome with Jean Cocteau to work on the surrealist ballet Parade with Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. He ran into Cocteau on the Blvd Montparnasse. “As we are going on a honeymoon together, let’s … Continue reading

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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 63

“Not everything can be about everything”– Stein, the worms and the butterflies. In his last and final book, The Memory Chalet, brilliant historian Toni Judt reminisces about teaching students at the time when feminism, gender and sexual harrassment were discovered. … Continue reading

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