Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein / With Two Shorter Stories

by Gertrude Stein

An arrangement that followed remaining together was not the only arrangement every one made who followed every other one. There was not every misunderstanding. There was no disposition to resist the whole business of remaining being living.

Carting there where there was paper carting cloth there was not an occupation. Kindly asking some one to be leaving was not an occupation. Nobody did it.

Hardly had one who was longer than the use of color hardly had he had he remained a long time when he came to do what he did. He used some of that and then it did not happen that he intruded remaining. He was the end of something.

All the many attractions of eating what is placed in a plate and put together is there when there has been a cold winter and there has been enough money for that to continue to be winter. It was not the mention of everything that meant that the change had not come, it was the beginning of something that meant the change had not come. The rest followed later. It followed quickly and there was the same half that together was not the whole. It was not expected. Any one refused something.

A bargain is not a bargain if one giving is receiving and one receiving is giving. Every bargain is the same when there are two and these two are the two who were the two who had been any one and were then that one. He who had all the rest did not have enough and naturally he said that he was delighted when he had an opportunity to see that he was there. He could not then hear what he heard and he could see what he saw. Any one of them all was there and there were enough there so that any one refused something and did not say no when they received all that was offered. They did not refuse to mention everything. It ended then. That was so disappointing.

It was earnest to stay every day, to weigh every day, to work some day, it was earnest to say that was all day when any day was the piece of a day when they did not stay where they would stay. They were not all not gay. They were not gay.

They did lightly what was not lightly done and they spoke then, they had the reception of exchanging something and they were meaning what was happening. They did not endow the rest with everything. They had not all the change when they left each one where that one was when he began. They did not manage to avoid all the pieces and they knew enough to be interested and they were not foolish, they were not busy with nothing, they did the same, they had enough of a way, they were not having any habit, they did it all, they said enough, they worked then, they arranged what they came to be selecting to be arranging. They were not suffering in refusing what they were not intending to be seeing. They were all there.

He who said something said it in the way that did not show all there was of what had to be. He was not reckless. He was not uncertain. He said it all in explaining that which was there and he explained it so that there could be that explanation. It was all there and complete. He went on. He was not the half of all there was as there were some and he was the whole of it all. That was not enough. Anything stopped. That was not undertaken. He had the meaning.

Conversation was not the reproduction of listening and talking and this was said and when there was more there was some understanding of that.

It is apparent that when each one is sitting where it is cold that the lamp which is burning is the lamp they are using. This has been and will be the habit that has not that meaning.