Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein / With Two Shorter Stories

by Gertrude Stein

Addressing themselves then they were saying what they were saying. Allowing themselves then they were saying what they were saying. Intending then they were saying what they were saying. Following then they were saying what they were saying. Leading then they were saying what they were saying. Having been staying they were coming in saying what they were saying. Expecting then they were deciding destroying and knowing what they where saying. Working then they were producing saying what they were knowing they were saying.

It was not a fantasy this which was an open movement of staying. It was not a desertion this which was a complete staying in recognising. It was not completely enterprising that which was creating following. It was not determining that which was intending some destroying. It was completely enlivening this which was contrasting what was remaining. It was completely intending that which was opening alarming. It was completely meaning that which was beginning explaining understanding. It was vaguely attacking that which was distinctly clearing. It was deciding believing that which was expecting demonstrating.

They all were where any one who was not there was and they all were where they would be when they were where they had come when they had stayed as they had stayed, because they had stayed and staying and saying that which they were knowing they were completely what if emerging is accepting constraining is not destroying and intending is continuing.

In having meaning, in expecting realisation, in deserting wearying, in exhausting attending, in loving insisting, in embarking anything, in continuing meaning, in persisting working, in hoping having been realising, in urging continuous hoping, in longing for existing, in hearing encouraging, in desolating what is waiting, in returning what has been being the ridiculous part of everything, in remembering all of conquering that has meaning, in straining all of selling that has buying, in operating all the desolation that has repeating, in all that is and was these who were and came were the ones who are when they stay and do not remain where they will be, these were the ones who are when they are and they are when they are as they had when they had what they had because they did not have what they could have since they did not have all they did have as they were when they are.

In staying and not waiting in choosing and progressing, in following and destroying, in succeeding and denying, in aspiring and varying in remaining and not saddening, in looking often, in expecting everything, in remaining after leaving choosing some, in selling after succeeding, in expecting to be selling after succeeding, in not denying selling after succeeding, in saying that saying can be saying, in arranging to be seeing what has been being seen when it has been seen, in returning when changing, in not going back in returning, in succeeding when they were remaining, in remaining when they had been succeeding, in remaining when they were not going to be succeeding, they were living. They were living. There had been room for ten when there had been room for six. There was room for six when there was room for ten. They were living.

They said that they knew that to be living was to be living. They said that they knew that if there was room for ten there was room for ten. They said there was room for ten. They said if there was room for ten there was room for six. They said there was room for ten. They said if there was room for ten there was room for six. They said there was room. They said there was room for ten. They said there was room for ten and they said if there was room for six there was room for ten.

They prepared something. They did not prepare saying they were knowing what they were saying. They were knowing they were saying what they were saying. They were staying. They were preparing what they would be doing as they were staying where they were staying. They were not preparing staying.

He did say what he did say and that was to say that many kept away there where they said what they knew they said when they stayed as they stayed. He did not say that they stayed away. He did not say that staying they were saying that they were knowing that they were saying that they were staying. He did say that staying they were saying that they were knowing what they were saying, he did say that they were staying. He did not say that he was staying when he was saying that he was knowing what he was saying. He did not say that he was saying what he was knowing what he was saying. He was saying that he was knowing that he was saying what he was saying and he did say that he was knowing he was staying. He did not say that he would be staying. He did not say that he would be knowing that he was saying what he was saying. He did say that if he would be staying he would be knowing he was saying what he was saying. He did say that he would be saying what he would be saying and he would be staying when he would be staying. He did say he would be staying.

They were all there was of the ones they all were and this was not because they were moving in unison, this was not because they were regular in working, this was not because they were defending what they were leading, this was not because they were holding what they were having, this was not because they were not succeeding, this was not because they were not realising all that was breathing, this was not because they were acting as they were intending, this was not because they were feeling in being needing, this was not because wonderfully exciting was being progressing, this was not because they were placing what they were inspecting, this was not because they were not urging what they were using, this was because they were following where they were leading.

If expecting nothing is not disconcerting expecting something is not annoying. He who had what was refused sold what he had given. He did not sell it again. He sold it once and that was satisfying. He felt it all all there was of selling. He knew he felt it all all there was of selling. He knew that he was having refused again what he had the obligation of having being existing. He felt all there was of having being knowing what he was intending would be satisfying when the obligation of selling would be completing selling what he had been creating.