Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein / With Two Shorter Stories

by Gertrude Stein

All the best that came when all that came was all that came was said when each one said that they each read and said what they each said and they each read. The basket that did not remain on the floor was not empty when all that was thrown away was put in it. The alarming way that each one did not throw away what was taken away did not dissatisfy every one. There could be conversation.

He said that he had put the piece that was there when he went away in the same place that it was now when it was there. His wife said that she remembered something. He did not then say more than he said. Not any one left the room. They all were busy.

He did not live by the light that there was when he went to live where he stayed some months. He talked about everything. This was not needed then but it was a very good thing as a way to begin and to have begun. He was satisfying.

The darkness was the same when he came in and when he went out and he talked about that when he talked about everything. He said he had had a little girl. He said the whole family were not there. He did not say that he needed everything. This was not what he said when he said what he said and he said what he said. He was not the only one and yet that was enough, that he was the one. There were some who said the same. He was not one.

Darkness is not black enough to have the same feeling that it has when not any one who is grieving is saying that it is a peculiar thing to adopt a child that is born and then to keep her. It was understood. Any one told the rest and it was not the only way to work every day and to have the whole piece covered so as to be as it was gay. The last time that there was the whole big piece was the time when the green and the blue and there was some red too was the time when it was all largely covering what was not too pretty to be lost. It was then sold and everybody was satisfied. Some said that to pay for it then meant that that was not the only way to keep it a long time. A half of all that was said was said when the rest of what was paid was paid. Any one was content. Some liked something.

The continuation was there and the last were not leading. This is not audacious. This is the climax of having a cooler climate than there had been.

The summer sun was not shining and the winter was not congealing and the ardent expression of satisfaction was not mystifying any one speaking the language that have meaning. Any language is the same when they all speak a few words of some and some speak all the words they are using. It was not mingling beginning and ending. It was not disturbing spending the afternoon and the evening. It was not always disturbing the morning. Enough had been received so that very many who came sat together. This did not originate sneezing. This did quiet moving. This did stimulate renewing the breathing. They were all there. They came on time. They were all there the ones who claimed to be the half of everything. They did not refuse to discriminate. They shown out when they did not put there the thoughts that were the first and then the next and then the last. They remained away when they had all that day. They did not see the remainder who did not stay. They went away. Some can come any day. That is always a piece of the half that is distributing everything. Each one was there. The union was not confusion. They had all that they had when they saw each other. They mentioned something.

He and he was not the lonely one when he ate all that he ate and he was not alone, he was not the happy one when he had what he had when he was happily there and sleeping some, he and he was not demeaning himself when he came again and he was always coming and was talking, he was not sacrificing when he was suffering and he was suffering resolution and undertaking and enlarging and he was not the peculiarly losing kind of a one any one was who was not continuing increasing, he was the one and he was the only one and he was the one and meeting was meeting and summering was summering and wintering was wintering and a flower garden was a flower garden; he was one and the neighbors were not leaving and he was not leaving and he was not destroying the rest and they were not destroying anything, he was one and he said the same and he said it all and he changed the whole when he had the dog that he had when he went and he had the dog that he had when he came and he did not stay that a dog could stay and he did not stay when he went away. He was not lonely. He was not stationary. He was not escaping. He was not busy. He was not walking. He was not running. He said he slept pretty well. He said that what he did was like that which was all the same and he said he knew it. He said he showed the rest when everybody turned the rest of it into the light where it was bright and he was bright and he said he told the friends who were together that he had not made the weather. He was not angry.

If the covered space has the same size as the little pieces that one left then the trouble when an explanation is due is not in listening when there is repeating. They were not anonymous.

Barring the size of the thing that is where it is there is no reason why a larger thing should not reproduce a little thing and this was not the only way to disturb everything. There were some ways of finding a beginning.