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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 95

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JAMAICA KINCAID QUOTING GERTRUDE STEIN? Should we call it a new sighting in our search for signs of presence in the Steinian post-renaissance? Is it a QUOTE? “She was thinking of her now, knowing that it would certainly become a … Continue reading

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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 92

How right or how wrong does it get when Gertrude Stein appears in the movies? I had a second look at Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris  — and compared his Gertrude to her twin in Alan Rudolph’s cult classic, The … Continue reading

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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 87

TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER STEIN 85 % original Stein, 15 % John le Carré, 1 % Stendhal This was not an accident and it was mentioned. To try and cry and not to smile. To try and not inherit not now … Continue reading

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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 86

NO PUSSY NO! How many scandals fit on the tip of a needle when the needle is Gertrude Stein? I ask you. To my delight, I discovered the latest one in the latest blog post by my friend Hans Gallas: … Continue reading

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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 85

99% Gertrude  Stein Aquarie Stein is having another virtual birthday, Feb. 3rd. She is turning 138. Looking back at the year she just spent, culturally speaking, it was the 99% Gertrude Stein year. The excitement created by her modern art … Continue reading

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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 84

OBSCENE CRITIC, OBSCENE ACADEMIC The Stein controversy was picked up by Scene4 Magazine, the international magazine for arts and media, in a special issue on Obscenity: What Is Obscenity and What’s Not? An excellent article by the poet and Stein … Continue reading

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Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 82

Words, funny words and funny funny pictures and Paris in a new picture book! It begins: “Once there were two amusing American ladies, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. They lived in a mighty marvelous apartment in Paris…, ” 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

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