Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein / With Two Shorter Stories

by Gertrude Stein

They were not the same when they saw it all and they did not change. There were enough of them. One was enough and he did not change. He did it all. He was accumulating this thing. He was not alone. He did not know any of them then and he met them and he knew them. He went away with one of them. He was enough.

He was not disturbing wearing what he was coming to have as a thing that was to cover him. He did not say that he liked it more than he did. He said he had been feeling something. He did not like to hear that he was the one who was having what he was having. He was not refusing hearing anything.

He had that as past what he was feeling in the future. He did not relieve himself of all of anything. He did not order any one to come and remain. He said that he asked all of the way meaning is being existing. He was not dividing coming again from remaining. He was the one who had remained and then had not left. He was the one who went where he went and did that which was the thing that was done then. He did not interfere with himself in hearing himself tell it all again. He was not astonishing.

This was not the only way that he was and he was the one who was all of that one. He did the same when he felt all he felt and he kept all he did when he felt all he felt. He had the same explanation when he was agreeing that he was winning as he had when he was agreeing that he was feeling. He was not sleeping in the morning and he was eating something in the evening. He did not turn away from this thing. He felt all that he felt. He did what he did when he did that which he did to do what he did. He attempted the whole way of going to be remaining and he succeeded in staying and astonishing. He did not undertake everything.

To sweep and not to leave what is not swept up, to reply and not to refuse to continue talking, to explain and to convince some one, to show all and to keep what is hidden, to be expressive and to attack the expense of travelling, to be careful and to ejaculate, to be sincere and to be using confounding refusing with deterioration, to be moving and steadying and surging and complaining and succeeding and grieving and exalting and speeding and pressing and acquiring is not the same thing as being any one. Some one is not the same and that one is not refusing all in refusing everything. That one is the only one. He is there again. He sits where he tells what he tells when he tells all he tells as he tells why he tells what there is that he can tell and has told. He does not refuse to remain although he does stay when he stays. He is there. This is not the end of all that.

Assailable barter in withdrawing slaughter is not the least of expression of following disaster. The ardent sitter and the intending hearer and the reclaiming helper and the disturbing divider and the vigorous hearer and the alarming buyer and the deep thinker and the steady beginner, all the leader and half the seller, all the listener and all the controller, all the etcetera and all the clearer, all the continuer and the rest steadily staying somewhere, all the same what was was there and what is is here. If the rest remain then getting them all there is not laughing as each one can tell the same. They do not all see. They have that which becomes them. They are not keeping everything. They give it again. They say they do.

He had all when he had enough and knew them all and said it as if he saw where he heard. He was shining and there was not all the fast bowing that he was not doing. He did the same. He said that and something else. He was not remaining still. He stated it all. It was there and he was with it when he did not loan it. He did not loan it. This was not all the same.

Way in and way on and the waiting and all and he was there and they were anywhere when there was there and they were not anywhere but there. They did not astonish themselves as they expected to be where there was there. They were feeling all of it and all they said they listened not to answer and hear but to say and see. They were the same. That was individual. They were the group. That was the way. They said it some. That was the rest. They saw it there. That was the reason. They felt it all. That was the feeling. They did it then. That was their doing. They hung it well. That was their arrangement. They were giving something. That was their way. They helped it then. That was their expression. They met often. That was their intention. They separated then. That was their separation.

They were not identical with what had happened. They were not opposing what was delighting them. They were not losing what they were saying. They were not giving what they were urging. They were not the same.

Walking around when the wet place is drying is not causing all the discussion which can be had when one and the other one and one and one have put the four places together so that they all have the same position. They describe each other. They were not darkening sitting and not waiting. They were feeling. They could see the white cover that was taken off when they were together. They felt all of something. They felt all of that thing. They were all coming. They had the picture of their having been those who had done what those had done and they had the decision that they were seeing all that they were seeing. They did not die one by one. They did not die, all of them. They did not see what was the same thing as being coming to remain where they placed what they were when they were to come to be something. They were shortly having all the remains of continuing. They had been feeling. They had all the same what was the rest of something. They had something.