Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein / With Two Shorter Stories

by Gertrude Stein

One is one. Why is one one. One is one because one being one is sweetly telling that thing and sweetly telling that thing is sweetly telling that that one being one is meaning, and not meaning what any meaning is meaning, is being the one sweetly telling that that one is hearing that that one sweetly telling that, that that one, is one is sweetly telling.

One is one if one were one and sweetly telling something that one would be telling something sweetly. Any one can be telling that that one is not sweetly telling anything. This one is one. She is one and is telling that she has been telling delicately telling what she would have been sweetly telling if she had not been telling what she has been telling. She is telling what she is telling and telling that she is telling that thing as she would be telling that thing if she were sweetly telling that thing.

She is one and telling is what she is doing in telling what she is telling, and that telling is what she is excelling in telling she is telling, in the way she would be telling what she is telling if she were sweetly telling what she is telling. She is convincing, she is convincing in telling that she is telling what she is telling in the way she would be telling what she is telling if she were sweetly telling what she is telling.

She is that one. She was the one telling that she is feeling that some one is telling what that one is telling and is sweetly telling what that one is telling. The one the one who is telling what she is telling sweetly, so some one telling is telling, that one is telling what she is telling and she is remembering that she has not been telling what she could have been telling and that she is telling what she is telling. She is remembering that she is telling what she is telling. She is feeling that being that one the one she is is fatiguing, she is telling that she soon will be continuing to be being the one she will be and telling is what any one expecting anything will not then be expecting. She is one living in remembering that she is being one who could be one continuing being one remembering that she was telling what she was telling. She was one being one expecting to be continuing to be resting, having come to be one who can be continuing to be telling what she is remembering she is telling. She is one remaining where she is remaining in continuing to be remembering that she is telling what she is telling. She is one remembering that telling what she has been telling has been continuing to be fatiguing. She is one expecting some one and the one she is expecting is one telling that she is not needing to be telling what she is telling, she is just needing to be talking and needing to be talking she is not needing anything. The one expected is the one not needing anything and being talking is telling that she has been needing something and has been needing talking. She has been talking and not needing anything has been getting what she was needing being getting so that when she is talking some one can be listening, when she is walking some one can be looking, when she is fixing something some one can be stopping. She is that one. She has returned and is telling that she has come and telling that she has come she is telling that needing talking is not being needing anything. She is not telling what she is remembering of having been needing talking as she is remembering that she has not been needing anything. She is that one.

When any one is gone and is not coming again that one is gone and is not coming again and being gone and being not coming again some one saying something is saying that not any one is saying that thing. That is all that is said by that one.

One who is saying what is clearly said, one who is saying anything that is clearly said, that one is saying that saying something is not at all exhausting and that one clearly saying everything is not being exhausted and not being exhausted and being clearly having clear things coming is for that reason just then so clearly that one that any one can see enough to look again and again. That one is that one. That one is then for that reason that one and one looking is looking. That one is clearly that one. That one is always so clearly that one that one looking is looking and looking.

Some one is one. Some one being one is expecting what not having been one she would not have been expecting and being one she was one completing expecting, she came to be completing expecting. She came to be that one. She came to be one.

Being one and completing expecting she had what she had and she kept all that and was completing expecting. She had come to receive what she could keep and she had come to be one and was completing expecting.

In coming to receive what she could keep, she did keep what she could receive, and she was one and she was completing expecting. She was one and she was completing expecting and she had been one having all she was having. In having been one having all she was having she had been one being that one.

In suffering she was bewildering, and in losing what she had been having she had been suffering, and in having been suffering and in continuing she was completing having been expecting completing that thing. She was expecting completing that thing completing continuing she having been one suffering and continuing. She was one continuing, she was one expecting completing, she was one expecting to be completing.