Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein / With Two Shorter Stories

by Gertrude Stein

Arthurs always listened and if he could then have remembered anything he would then have been one being quite charming. He was pleasant, he had charm, he was listening, he was expecting to be coming to be one listening and hearing and remembering.

To be finished with any one is something. Some one is finished with some one. Some one is finished with one.

Vrais is some one with whom some one is almost finished and that is not surprising and that is not exciting although the one finished with him is one who has said of him said of Vrais that he was a faithful one. Vrais was a faithful one that is to say he was not always coming when he might have been pleasantly coming to be being that one being a faithful one but he was one who had come and had been then a faithful one and had come again sometime and had been then a faithful one. The one who was finishing then with him was one who had said that Vrais was a faithful man.

That one was finished with Vrais that is to say Vrais was not needing then to be one coming sometime to be then a faithful one. Vrais was not needing then to be a faithful one for that one who had been one who had said that Vrais was a faithful one. There were some then who were coming and any one then coming was a faithful one and the one who had said that Vrais was a faithful one was one then not finishing but finished with him with his having been one sometimes coming and having been then a faithful one. He had been one sometimes coming and had been a faithful one and not one was finished with that thing. There were enough then coming, all of them were enough then to be any one coming sometimes and being a faithful one. Vrais was then one with whom some one was finished then and not needing anything, not needing any one being a faithful one in being coming sometimes, in being completely a faithful one in having been coming sometimes.

Some one was finished with Jane Sands. Several were finished with Jane Sands. Any one could come to be certain that she had not ever been a dangerous person. Any one could come to be certain that she had not gone on doing something. Any one could come to be certain that she had not been meaning what she was living in meaning. Any one could come to be certain that she had not been understanding anything. Any one could be certain that she had not begun anything. Any one could come to be certain that she was not feeling what she was one completely resonating. Any one could be certain that she had been completely born and been a stupid one. Any one could come to be enough finished with her to be quite finished then quite finished then with her. Any one could come not to be paying any attention to having been finished with, when they had been for a little time finished with her. Any one then could be one being finished with her. Any one could be such a one. Any one was some time some such a one. Any one was one who was finished with her when they were certain of anything of her everything.

Larr was one, almost any one could be certain not any one would be one being completely finished with him. Not any one was completely finished with him that is to say he was one who could be one with whom not any one had been completely finished. One could be completely finished with him and one was completely finished and he was one with whom not any one was completely finished that is to say he was one who might be one with whom not any one was finished. He was one with whom some were more finished than they might have been if he had been one being more completely one with whom not any one was completely finished. Some were quite nearly enough finished with him so that for them they were finished enough with him.

Mrs. Gaston was one who if she had been one not beginning being one not going on being the one she had been would have been one whom not any one would have been one feeling anything about finishing with her being existing. She was beginning being one and that one was one repeating what was not succeeding and some were certain that very many had come to be remembering that finishing with her was existing. Any one could come to remember something of finishing with her being something being existing.

George Clifton said himself that any one wanting to know that he was one some had come to be finished with should come to him, he could tell them something of some such thing. He could tell them that not every one could be finished with him, that he was finished with himself and that was a thing that could have been something that was not happening and certainly then he had been a healthy one and not needing everything and having everything was something he had been having and he could be having everything and he was not having everything and he was finished enough with having everything and he was finished enough for any one who was not wanting to be having him to be finished with him.

Loving is certain if one is going on loving. Loving then in a way is certain. Loving is certain when one is going on loving.

Loving is certain. Going on loving is something when loving is certain. Loving is certain and going on loving is something.