Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein / With Two Shorter Stories

by Gertrude Stein

The two who were there were angry there and being angry they were left there. Being left there one of them was angry, the other one was not angry. The one that was angry was sitting. The one that was not angry was resting. The two were there, one was angry and the other could have known that, if that one had not been resting. The one that was angry was angry because if being that one was something then being angry was nothing. The one that was angry was angry and being angry was not suffering and not being suffering was not having that being angry was being what that one was being in being that one when being that one was nothing.

That one was one who had been one being one who was not an angry one. In being that one in being one who had been one not being an angry one that one was not being one. That one was that one, that one was being then one who was resting and there being then two of them and both resting they were not being then there the two of them. One of them was there then. That one was resting.

In a thing being one way and having come to be another way, in a thing having come to be another way some one can be one trying to be telling something. In trying to be telling something that one can come to be saying something and some one asking something then that one is one then wishing anything. In being one then wishing anything and that one then is one wishing anything, in being one then wishing anything that one is not then one wishing that the thing that is a changed thing is the thing it was before that was a changed thing. That one is one wishing anything, in wishing anything that one is not wishing that thing. And why is that one in wishing anything not wishing that thing. That one in wishing anything is not wishing that thing because that one in wishing anything is wishing that some other one would be one knowing that the thing is a changed thing. In wishing that the other one were one knowing that the thing is a changed thing that one is one wishing anything rather than that the other should be one being one knowing that thing knowing that the thing is a changed thing. The one wishing would be one wishing if that one were not one quite knowing everything of what would be happening if the other one were knowing that the thing is a changed thing. Wishing anything is wishing anything. Knowing everything that will be happening is knowing everything that will be happening. Some one who is knowing everything that will be happening is wishing anything.

You agree, I agree, we agree. If we agree and we do not agree, if we agree and both say something then I say I do not agree and you say you do not agree. If we both say something and you say I agree and I say I do not agree then if we agree we agree that you agree and if you agree that you agree then I agree that I then do not agree. Some agree, some do not agree. That is something that any one saying any other thing is saying is not happening. We agree, that is something that some say is not happening. We agree that is something you are saying. In saying that thing you are saying that thing and I am not saying anything. In not saying anything I am saying that agreeing is nothing, any one saying anything is agreeing, any one saying anything is not agreeing.

Some when they are talking are saying that they are not only saying that thing, they are saying anything and in saying anything they are saying that everything is nothing. In saying that thing they are saying that they are hoping that if any one is answering them they will then not need to answer again and they do answer again and then they are hoping again that they will not need to be answering if any one says anything. Any one answering can be one hoping that they will not be one expecting to be answering again. Any one answering can be such a one.

If very many who come and say yes had come and said no, not any one who was liking that many come and say yes would have been liking what was happening. Very many who would not have been liking what was happening if very many had come and said no did like what was happening as very many came and said yes.

All who came and said yes said that they said yes and some of them said that they had intended to say no and they would have said no if they had not said yes. Having said yes they said that having said yes they would say yes again if they did not say no.

One being one who had said no said that having said no he was saying yes and saying yes he was saying that he would come to say no if he would not come to say yes. This one was saying that he was not waiting to say no. This one was saying that he was not waiting to say yes. This one was saying that he would come to say no if he came to say no. This one was saying that he would come to say yes if he came to say yes. This one was asking if some one who had said yes had not said no. This one was saying that one who had said no had said no.

This one was waiting and waiting was not waiting to say no was not waiting to say yes. He was not waiting for any one to say no for any one to say yes. He was not waiting for every one to say no, for every one to say yes, this one was waiting and in waiting he said that he had said yes if he had not said no. This one was waiting and in waiting he asked any one what they had said whether they had said no, whether they had said yes.

In talking and any one who was not listening was talking, in talking every one who was not remembering what they were saying and not any one can be one remembering that thing remembering what they were saying, in talking every one in saying something is saying that something is not anything and in saying that something is not anything is saying that something might be something. Any one talking and any one who is not talking and listening is talking, any one talking is remembering that something that was said was something that being said was meaning that something is something. Any one talking is one remembering something of something. Any one talking is telling that something having been something, something is something.