Geography and Plays

by Gertrude Stein

So much sorrow in winter and so much sadness in summer, so much nervousness in the country and so much disturbance in the city, so much counting with a letter and so much writing with no electrician, so much piano color and so much musical permission, so much steadiness in circling and so much singleness in searching, so much bloom in labeling and so much secrecy in enlightening, so much saving in abandoning and so much steadying in remaining, all this and no more, so much and not often, all this and no moment when a monument is not mind and munificent, no time and sweetness and no escape and separation, all this and no obliging desperation, all this and the same moment in particular and if it were in not passing, all and no one never to be satisfied in signalling, no more and the choice is absent, there is a season in the right, there is a sanction in the left, there is a presence in the center, there is an upheaval in the distant circumference, there is a resonance in the special curve, there is a susceptibility in the unperspiring relation. All this nightly and some daily and weakly and more yearly and not certainly and not reducingly.

To be raised and to be so respected that there is no doubt that the lines that are turning are the lines that are turning, to be so respected that talking is not continuous and the presence of nothing is more selected, to be so raised is not an expectation, it is capable of calming.

There has been no doubt. There has not been any doubt. There is not being any surface and there is not that there then.

The strong hold is the mildness of the salutation of the metropolitan. This is not obligatory and it is not capable, neither is it casual. The mint is not where there is no building, it is not any this is never a surprise, it is never a surprise because when the whole thing is considered and the whole thing when it is considered has that beginning, when it is put where there is no selection it is then not made noticeable. To be noticeable is not declared, in declaring it there is no speech, in not keeping on talking there is no silence. This is not heard louder and there is no doubt. There will not be that doubt.

The capacity which makes the size that has that meaning have that meaning, that is what has the sensitiveness which does not make anticipation, there is reality. In that there is touching morning and in touching morning there is no course. There is all there inclines to be. The freedom which has no ornament is not spilled and this does not mean anything not lively, it certainly does not mean an extra. The practice of no pronoun is not audacious. There is no prize in a pocket. There is none there and the circle having a separation makes all that which is not the same similar, it does not make it a circle. A circle has no pleasure, it is not encircled and there is this to say that the white and black are brown.

[PORTRAIT OF PRINCE B. D.]

A space is not spent, it is not used, it is similar, it is represented. This shows no more than a latitude which running through the center makes the surrounding. The space is not placed, it is presented, that is the relation of the similar settlement. To settle upon and to settle under shows more than the similar circle it shows the degree which makes more similarity than that, it sinks higher and there is no roar. The section and there is a section, the section means that penetration resembles distance, it supplies the drop and it selects no sightless system.

The incident that succumbs is the one that is early. The lateness is not tending to define a definite darkness, it does not shine and since that time there is a large light. The western windless is not the same as the white wind. The white wind has no poise. There is a diamond. A diamond is a treasure. If a treasure is that color then there is a resemblance.

A trade between the one who has a hat and one who has a hat is such that there is no hiatus. The one who has had a hat is the one who adds that. The one who is the one that has that is that one adding that thing. No neglecting and adding, no single safety silent disturbing, no neglect and no glass is there to pass away and stay. It sees the solid sight and that which is not bright is white, that which is single is resembling and so it comes that when there is a show a way to pass into the recent glow means more fire. A fine color is red and green and purple and rose and yellow, a fine color resembles the continuation. Any fine color is in a glass. A glass to resist must be a glass to pass. This shows no shadow. This shows no scratch.