Geography and Plays

by Gertrude Stein

[PUBLISHERS, THE PORTRAIT GALLERY AND THE MANUSCRIPTS AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM]

The answer in the house is that talking is not the same thing as a lamb. So that was the way it came to be and the second answer came before the first.

All the part was distributed and the selection of more was not made before the sight was so particular that any letter had a signature. This which is even is not the whole page, there is more that is even, very much more and any size is larger.

To beam is not to seem to have an eye that is there and a hair that is colored, to beam is not so disturbed that any afternoon is not sooner than the next morning. This was so useful and the excuse was not placed in between the hotels, it was not placed anywhere. This is the date of some days in every week, and the morning is before noon. So simply and so strangely, so much the more advanced, so much the more interior and so much more coughing than learning, so very much more and yet there is no disappointment, not any disappointment.

The cute way that a certain place is open on Sunday and not on Tuesday does not mean that an invitation will not be coming. Not at all, there is more chair than standing exhausts.

So then the whole spring is earlier than February. This was so much the tail of the previous setting of the sun and the moon and some of the stars. Electric lighting is so usual and more weddings are celebrated in the place of thanksgiving.

A target and a round face, a beard that is not whiter, the center of it all is that resemblance and surely there is that to pass away and have the same decision. Surely there is that resemblance and surely the ones standing alone have that copy. Surely there is the safe persuasion. Surely there is danger.

So to move and to faint and to separate the lists together, so to lengthen and to shorten and to curve the same direction, so to measure every daughter and to lessen every sister and to manage every mother and to sever every brother and to undertake a father and to beam upon a lover so to sing and so to talk and so to change the line together, all of this and any show is the way to season nature and to have it all together means the same in every letter.

This which is not so strange is the more used and in there kindly being a face there is more resemblance than if it were written and then comes the time to look and there it is, there is the writing.

So astonishing is it not when there has been preservation. The noise which comes has not any decisive obligation and yet the whole date is just the same. So sweet are the singular pleasures of recognition. The strength of the place does not mean more than all. Some have no distaste.