Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein / With Two Shorter Stories

by Gertrude Stein

If a piece that is longer is longer and stirring is wetting then surely no one need know anything.

To refuse is the way to refuse all the way and there is enough and to spare when in being asked to take what is given not being there is all there is of not having had anything. Quantities are not lost when there is satisfaction and yet there is the whole way of counting and there is some way of retiring. Nevertheless it cannot be seen that the way to remove what is not seen is not the way that washing makes plain. It is slightly difficult to have what is being had and to say that sleeping is sleeping a little any day. It is not thoughtful to think that the way to make a sound is by hearing a roaring that may be a mingling and certainly is existing.

All the perplexity of congratulation is removed when two are talking and are saying that they are not where they were. They have been moving and they saw one and pleasantly took something and they did not see one and this had to do with eating. Particularly undertaking refusing everything is a means that is wholesome when health and wealth is not deteriorating. All that can be included is not all that is withheld and rashly enough the water that came all flowed away. There was then a happy ending.

If two talking together are saying that they have not been together when each one saw something then they are not always listening, they are sometimes tired. This is enough so so that two can be married.

One is the one who came and looked down and did not frown and could walk longer if the way which is long is harder. This one who did walk went back again and said that that which was seen was peculiar. The one who did not walk would walk longer and did walk and did see that thing and did say that perhaps it was peculiar but it did not matter as it would not be seen again and certainly not longer. They were not opposing listening neither the one or the other who was talking. They were not asking it again as much and this was the way of arranging that there was not to be all there was of future. They took a walk together and they came oftener and they were not hidden by the light that made a flicker. They had undertaken enough.

It was a lovely way and the man who stood was slow and the hidden thing that was clearly seen was climbing in between. If either was together and the two were all then it was not only lightly but delicately and completely and astonishment never can be expressive.

Altogether to look and pronounce that conversation is not pleasing is the way to accept responsibility and to have children. This is not alarming. It is happening every day when the dining room is changing.

If the child is bigger and the noise comes quicker then the part that is standing is lifted and the noise is not continuing. When the way to remove what is lying has been seen then a little one that has an apron ties a string and lying on anything is sleeping. This is not occupying all of anything. Actually there has been a condition. Actually there is a condition. Actually all of them are together. They are there and are there where they stand and sit and look often. They are continuing.

If the accumulation of inexpediency produces the withdrawing of the afternoon greeting then in the evening there is more preparation and this will take away the paper that has been lying where it could be seen. All the way that has the aging of a younger generation is part of the way that resembles anything that is not disappearing. It is not alright as colors are existing in being accommodating. They have a way that is identical.

Charging the admission is not the only way of doing. Opening the falling and seeing the illuminating is not the only way of whitening. The oily half of the higher place is the hard things that do not get in and remain. They change what is darker and they make louder what is regular. They keep together and separate later. That is all of the rest. The half that sleep are opening what is receiving. The two parts are enough together to be closer. They are not seeking anything that is muddier. Something is running and the sound is not increasing. It is loud enough to wet the thing that is beginning. It is not undertaking to see what is seen. Sleeping is continuing. Joining is quite soothing. All ways are remarking something. It is again. It is where it has been. One again and one again and that is everything as that is something. All of the eating is beginning. One two has it. That is often. There is no remaining that there is complaining. It is filling.