Gertrude Stein Questions & Answers

Okay then, This is my art homework, could you tell me if it good and what could improve about it please, we are supposed to be doing a biography about Pablo Picasso (500 words) and THIS is my own words, not copy and paste, i got the same format style from the Wikipedia. Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso (Baptized name is Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso) was born on the 25th of October 1907, The European country of Spain, in the city of Malaga in the Andulusian region of Spain. Pablo showed a passion towards Drawing at a young of his life, According to his mother; his first words we’re ‘’piz piz’’ meaning a shortening lapiz, which is Spanish for ‘’pencil’’. In 1819, the family moved to La Coruna, where his father became a professor at the schools of fine arts, him and his family lived there for almost 4 years. His sister who died of diphtheria, who’s named is unknown; her age at the time was 7 at her death, after the death, her family moved to Barcelona. His father allowed his son to take an extra course of the advanced class, this process often took students just over a month to do, and amazedly Pablo did it in just 1 week, who was just 13 at the time. His father rented a small room near home so he would work alone in quiet. Pablo father and uncle decided to send him to Madrid’s Royal Academy of San Fernando, which is known as the country’s foremost aft school. In 1897, Pablo, aged 16 set off the first time on his own, he became to dislike ‘’formal instructions’’ and quit attending classes soon after he had an enrolment. Early Career. In 1900, after studying in art in Madrid, Pablo made his first trip to the Capital city of France, Paris, There he met his friend Max Jacob, who helped him (Pablo) learn the language and its literates, Soon after friendship, they shared the same apartment room, Max slept at night, while Pablo worked at night, and Max worked at day and slept at night. In their times it was cold, serve poverty, and desperation, he burned much of his work to keep them warm, during the first 5 months of living in the apartment together (1901), Pablo moved back to Madrid, where both him and his friend found a magazine company called Arte Joven (In English that is, Young art), they published 5 issues. By 1905, they became a favourite of the American art collectors Leo and Gertrude stein. Their older sibling Michael Stein and his wife Sarah also became Collectors of their work, Pablo painted portraits of both Gertrude Stein and Gertrude nephew Allen Stein. Gertrude Stein became Picasso's principal patron, acquiring his drawings and paintings and exhibiting them in her informal Salon at her home in the French city of Paris. Personal life In the early 20 century, he divided his life in both Barcelona and Paris, in 1904, in the middle of Thunderous weather, he met Fernande Olivier, An artist who became a mistress. This work is incomplete, so, its not going to be perfect. Thanks again for having time to read this.

did either of these American authors belong to any political causes or receive special awards or honors?

The poem goes like this: A Dog by Gertrude Stein A little monkey goes like a donkey that means to say that means to say that more sighs last goes. Leave with it. A little monkey goes like a donkey. This isn't for a class. It's just an interesting piece of literature that I'm trying to untangle.

Any close readings? "A LONG DRESS. What is the current that makes machinery, that makes it crackle, what is the current that presents a long line and a necessary waist. What is this current. What is the wind, what is it. Where is the serene length, it is there and a dark place is not a dark place, only a white and red are black, only a yellow and green are blue, a pink is scarlet, a bow is every color. A line distinguishes it. A line just distinguishes it. "

My choices: Willa Cather: My Antonia, O Pioneers!, One of Ours Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man William Faulkner: As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury F. Scott Fitzgerald: Tender is the Night, This Side of Paradise Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon Ernest Hemmingway: A Farewell to Arm, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God Sinclair Lewis: Babbitt, Dodsworth, Main Street Gertrude Stein: Three Lives Sohn Steinbeck: Cannery Row, East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath Thornton Wilder: Our Town, The Cabala, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Skin of Our Teeth Richard Wright: Native Son W. Somerset Maugham: Of Human Bondage, The Razors Edge

1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 2. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 3. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 5. The Color Purple by Alice Walker 6. Ulysses by James Joyce 7. Beloved by Toni Morrison 8. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding 9. 1984 by George Orwell 10. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 11. Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov 12. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 13. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White 14. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce 15. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 16. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 17. Animal Farm by George Orwell 18. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 19. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 20. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway 21. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 22. Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne 23. Their Eyes are Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 24. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 25. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison 26. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 27. Native Son by Richard Wright 28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 29. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 30. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway 31. On the Road by Jack Kerouac 32. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 33. The Call of the Wild by Jack London 34. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 35. Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 36. Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin 37. The World According to Garp by John Irving 38. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren 39. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster 40. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien 41. Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally 42. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 43. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand 44. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce 45. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 46. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 47. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum 48. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence 49. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 50. The Awakening by Kate Chopin 51. My Antonia by Willa Cather 52. Howards End by E. M. Forster 53. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 54. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger 55. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie 56. Jazz by Toni Morrison 57. Sophie's Choice by William Styron 58. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner 59. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster 60. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 61. A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor 62. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 63. Orlando by Virginia Woolf 64. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence 65. Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe 66. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut 67. A Separate Peace by John Knowles 68. Light in August by William Faulkner 69. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James 70. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 71. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 72. A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 73. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs 74. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 75. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence 76. Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe 77. In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway 78. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein 79. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett 80. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer 81. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 82. White Noise by Don DeLillo 83. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather 84. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller 85. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells 86. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad 87. The Bostonians by Henry James 88. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser 89. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather 90. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame 91. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald 92. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand 93. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles 94. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis 95. Kim by Rudyard Kipling 96. The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald 97. Rabbit, Run by John Updike 98. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster 99. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis 100. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie This is a list of banned books. The list was prepared by the American Library Association as part of banned book week. http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/challengedclassics/index.cfm

What should I do my paper on? A Hunger Artist/Franz Kafka, Popular Mechanics/Raymond Carver, or Ada/Gertrude Stein? Which is the easiest if I want to talk about the theme in the story? What should the theme be? Thesis sentence? Thanks for your help and for saving my life.

y is it that light from stars are MILLIONS of light years away from a it's source, the star/stars? (a light year is how far light goes in a year). and also know that light is not matter- although it creates energy forms-, so it cannot be created in any way or form with-out it's source. also know that light is not matter, so it cannot be created in any way or form with-out it's source. if god did even make light, ect- which he called day in the bible, which is SO dumb, bcuz day/night is the revolving of the earth basicly- that it's still millions of years away from where it comes. and yeah, i read the bible, i being serious, im not lying and i cannot prove to u i am not, u just hav to bear with me here. infact, dont say that the bible never says the world is not 6000 years old. i bet if u google it now, it will immedeatly say it does at the top of the list. "there aint no answer. there aint going to be any answer. there never has been an answer. that's the answer." ~ Gertrude Stein "the fact that a beliver is happier than a skeptic is no more to the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." ~George Bernard Shaw. i'll admit this is a re-do as people were answering with stuff that's inccorect, but it is different in a large number of ways, so answers should still come in. i wonder if any1 answers now that it's full-proof? heremes, im athiest, so the idea that the world is 6000 years old is ridiculous to me. i'll look into that thing u mentioned b4 that, 1 min plz... and yep, it's that old. further proof to my thoughts. "an", give me a better source than, "somewhere in the internet" and i'll belive u. and hold on a moment, 4004bc,well over 2000 years before the bible was written. just explain a bit more, im confused... to anake, lov the answer- best so far- and the fossil thing reminds me of a comment one guy made about something along thoes lines. he said the devil put the fossils in the ground to test us. rolf! XD. btw, if any1 can put my question down, i'll still make it best answer. so come on, work on thoes arguments! im really bored....

I haven't read poetry much at all, but I would like to start. I made a list of poets that I'd like to start with, and I'd like for someone to help me narrow it further. Right now I want to read romantic poems, the type you might read aloud to someone. E. E. Cummings Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Gertrude Stein Henry David Thoreau Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Herman Melville Langston Hughes Louisa May Alcott Mark Twain Maya Angelou Oliver Wendell Holmes Phillis Wheatley Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost Stephen Crane T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman Thanks!

Do you know what all the people mentioned in the song 'Hot Topic' are supposed to have in common? I can't figure it out. Lyrics: Hot topic is the way that we rhyme Hot topic is the way that we rhyme One step behind the drum style One step behind the drum style Carol Rama and Elanor Antin Yoko Ono and Carolee Schneeman You're getting old, that's what they'll say, but Don't give a damn I'm listening anyway Stop, don't you stop I can't live if you stop Don't you stop Gretchen Phillips and Cibo Matto Leslie Feinburg and Faith Ringgold Mr. Lady, Laura Cottingham Mab Segrest and The Butchies, man Don't stop Don't you stop We won't stop Don't you stop So many roads and so much opinion So much shit to give in, give in to So many rules and so much opinion So much bullshit but we won't give in Stop, we won't stop Don't you stop I can't live if you stop Tammy Rae Carland and Sleater-Kinney Vivienne Dick and Lorraine O'Grady Gayatri Spivak and Angela Davis Laurie Weeks and Dorothy Allison Stop, don't you stop Please don't stop We won't stop Gertrude Stein, Marlon Riggs, Billie Jean King, Ut, DJ Cuttin Candy, David Wojnarowicz, Melissa York, Nina Simone, Ann Peebles, Tammy Hart, The Slits, Hanin Elias, Hazel Dickens, Cathy Sissler, Shirley Muldowney, Urvashi vaid, Valie Export, Cathy Opie, James Baldwin, Diane Dimassa, Aretha Franklin, Joan Jett, Mia X, Krystal Wakem, Kara Walker, Justin Bond, Bridget Irish, Juliana Lueking, Cecelia Dougherty, Ariel Skrag, The Need, Vaginal Creme Davis, Alice Gerard, Billy Tipton, Julie Doucet, Yayoi Kusama, Eileen Myles Oh no no no don't stop stop............

thanks uhhhm and this isn't a hw question so don't be a dumb bitch

"A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears." -Gertrude Stein

Comparison of Arab and Jewish Nobel Prize Winners Arab/Islamic Nobel Prize Winners From a pool of 1.4 BILLION Muslims which are 20% of the world's population (2 out of every 10 people) Literature 1988 - Najib Mahfooz Peace 1978 - Anwar El-Sadat 1994 - Yasser Arafat * 2003 - Shirin Ebadi Chemistry 1999 - Ahmed Zewail Physics Abdus Salam * NOTE: Norwegian, Kaare Kristiansen, was a member of the Nobel Committee. He resigned in 1994 to protest the awarding of a Nobel "Peace Prize" to Yasser Arafat, whom he correctly labeled a "terrorist." Jewish Nobel Prize Winners From a pool of 12 million Jews which are 0.2% of the World's Population (2 out of every 1,000 people) Literature 1910 - Paul Heyse 1927 - Henri Bergson 1958 - Boris Pasternak 1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon 1966 - Nelly Sachs 1976 - Saul Bellow 1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer 1981 - Elias Canetti 1987 - Joseph Brodsky 1991 - Nadine Gordimer 2002 - Imre Kertesz World Peace 1911 - Alfred Fried 1911 - Tobias Asser 1968 - Rene Cassin 1973 - Henry Kissinger 1978 - Menachem Begin 1986 - Elie Wiesel 1994 - Shimon Peres 1994 - Yitzhak Rabin 1995 - Joseph Rotblat Chemistry 1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer 1906 - Henri Moissan 1910 - Otto Wallach 1915 - Richard Willstaetter 1918 - Fritz Haber 1943 - George Charles de Hevesy 1961 - Melvin Calvin 1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz 1972 - William Howard Stein 1972 - C.B. Anfinsen 1977 - Ilya Prigogine 1979 - Herbert Charles Brown 1980 - Paul Berg 1980 - Walter Gilbert 1981 - Ronald Hoffmann 1982 - Aaron Klug 1985 - Herbert A. Hauptman 1985 - Jerome Karle 1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach 1988 - Robert Huber 1989 - Sidney Altman 1992 - Rudolph Marcus 1998 - Walter Kohn 2000 - Alan J. Heeger 2004 - Irwin Rose 2004 - Avram Hershko 2004 - Aaron Ciechanover Economics 1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson 1971 - Simon Kuznets 1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow 1973 - Wassily Leontief 1975 - Leonid Kantorovich 1976 - Milton Friedman 1978 - Herbert A. Simon 1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein 1985 - Franco Modigliani 1987 - Robert M. Solow 1990 - Harry Markowitz 1990 - Merton Miller 1992 - Gary Becker 1993 - Rober Fogel 1994 - John Harsanyi 1994 - Reinhard Selten 1997 - Robert Merton 1997 - Myron Scholes 2001 - George Akerlof 2001 - Joseph Stiglitz 2002 - Daniel Kahneman 2005 - Robert (Israel) Aumann Medicine 1908 - Elie Metchnikoff 1908 - Paul Erlich 1914 - Robert Barany 1922 - Otto Meyerhof 1930 - Karl Landsteiner 1931 - Otto Warburg 1936 - Otto Loewi 1944 - Joseph Erlanger 1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser 1945 - Ernst Boris Chain 1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller 1950 - Tadeus Reichstein 1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman 1953 - Hans Krebs 1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann 1958 - Joshua Lederberg 1959 - Arthur Kornberg 1964 - Konrad Bloch 1965 - Francois Jacob 1965 - Andre Lwoff 1967 - George Wald 1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg 1969 - Salvador Luria 1970 - Julius Axelrod 1970 - Sir Bernard Katz 1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman 1975 - David Baltimore 1975 - Howard Martin Temin 1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg 1977 - Rosalyn Sussman Yalow 1977 - Andrew V. Schally 1978 - Daniel Nathans 1980 - Baruj Benacerraf 1984 - Cesar Milstein 1985 - Michael Stuart Brown 1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein 1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini] 1988 - Gertrude Elion 1989 - Harold Varmus 1991 - Erwin Neher 1991 - Bert Sakmann 1993 - Richard J. Roberts 1993 - Phillip Sharp 1994 - Alfred Gilman 1994 - Martin Rodbell 1995 - Edward B. Lewis 1997 - Stanley B. Prusiner 1998 - Robert F. Furchgott 2000 - Eric R. Kandel 2002 - Sydney Brenner 2002 - Robert H. Horvitz Physics 1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson 1908 - Gabriel Lippmann 1921 - Albert Einstein 1922 - Niels Bohr 1925 - James Franck 1925 - Gustav Hertz 1943 - Gustav Stern 1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi 1945 - Wolfgang Pauli 1952 - Felix Bloch 1954 - Max Born 1958 - Igor Tamm 1958 - Il'ja Mikhailovich 1958 - Igor Yevgenyevich 1959 - Emilio Segre 1960 - Donald A. Glaser 1961 - Robert Hofstadter 1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau 1963 - Eugene P. Wigner 1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman 1965 - Julian Schwinger 1967 - Hans Albrecht Bethe 1969 - Murray Gell-Mann 1971 - Dennis Gabor 1972 - Leon N. Cooper 1973 - Brian David Josephson 1975 - Benjamin Mottleson 1976 - Burton Richter 1978 - Arno Allan Penzias 1978 - Peter L Kapitza 1979 - Stephen Weinberg 1979 - Sheldon Glashow 1988 - Leon Lederman 1988 - Melvin Schwartz 1988 - Jack Steinberger 1990 - Jerome Friedman 1992 - Georges Charpak 1995 - Martin Perl 1995 - Frederick Reines 1996 - David M. Lee

1. I enjoy playing volleyball with anyone ___ has time to play. whomever whom whose who 2. Instead of visiting romantic places, the romantic places visited ____ and ____. she I her I her me she me 3. The instructor divided the work between Sam and I me myself mine 4. Which sentence is correctly punctuated? Most practical jokes, such as; unexpected, loud, exploding fireworks, collapsing unstable seats; and mysterious, deceptive, disappearing objects are exploitations of these situations Most practical jokes: such as unexpected loud, exploding fireworks; collapsing unstable seats; and mysterious, deceptive, disappearing objects are exploitations of these situations. Most practical jokes such as unexpected, loud, exploding fireworks; collapsing, unstable seats; and mysterious, deceptive, disappearing objects are exploitations of these situations. Most practical jokes such as unexpected, loud, exploding fireworks, collapsing, unstable seats; and mysterious, deceptive, disappearing objects are exploitations of these situations. 5.One of the companies gave ____ employees a raise. their its his her 6. Our coach tells ____ tennis players to practice hard. we us them their 7. The crowd cheered the winners, ____ and ____. she I she me her I her me 8. My friend and ____ agreed long ago that we would someday take a cruise together. myself me I mine 9. The volleyball players ____ I met yesterday were too skillful for me. whomever whom whose who 10. My brother is as short as ____. I my me mine 11. Carl's resolution to study more is a result of ____ making poor grades last semester. he him his its 12. Every practice session the coach tells the others and ____ that we are getting better and better. I myself me mine 16. Car theft has increased alarmingly in most major cities; one city has decided, however, to fight back. Sentence Fragment Comma Splice Fused sentence/run-on 17. Isabella Bird, for example, a British clergyman's daughter, began traveling and writing when she ws in her forties, she often wrote by the light of a portable oil lamp with a gun in her pocket. sentence fragment comma splice fused/run-on 18. Many people know Holmes through reading Doyle's stories in addition, the character of Sherlock Holmes has appeared on stage, screen, radio, and television. sentence fragment comma splice fused/run-on 19. Classical music which he played over the ship's loud speaker. sentence fragment comma splice fused/run-on 20. Before Billie Jean King, however, professional tennis was mostly a male sport; and until it was broadcast on national television, many considered it to be an "elitist"one. sentence fragment comma splice fused/run-on 21. Far more people experience mood disorders during the winter months than during the summer months. sentence fragment comma splice fused/run-on 22. Sherlock Holmes is a most popular fiction detective, in fact, his exploits have been translated into fifty-seven languages. sentence fragment comma splice fused/run-on 23. Introduced by her assistant, the mayor began with an opening statement. sentence fragment comma splice fused/run-on 24. Gertrude Stein moved from America to Paris in 1902 she quickly became fascinated by impressionist painting. sentence fragment comma splice fused/run-on 25. To announce new programs for crime prevention and care for the homeless. sentence fragment comma splice fused/run-on 26. Although it ____ silly, I love to walk in the rain. seem seems seemed seeming 27. The five tables in the back of the dining room ____ Fred's responsibility. is are been has 28. The veteran policeman and his rookie partner ____ the beat slowly, looking into the shop windows and checking to make sure all the doors are locked. walk walking is walking walks

The writer Gertrude Stein met her partner, Alice B. Toklas, in 1907 and lived with her until Stein died in 1946. How many people live with someone for almost 40 years just because the sex is good? Is it possible that their relationship was based on more than just sexual attraction?

"I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences." "And what does a comma do, a comma does nothing but make easy a thing that if you like it enough is easy enough without the comma. A long complicated sentence should force itself upon you, make you know yourself knowing it and the comma, well at the most a comma is a poor period that lets you stop and take a breath but if you want to take a breath you ought to know yourself that you want to take a breath. It is not like stopping altogether has something to do with going on, but taking a breath well you are always taking a breath and why emphasize one breath rather than another breath. Anyway that is the way I felt about it and I felt that about it very very strongly. And so I almost never used a comma. The longer, the more complicated the sentence the greater the number of the same kinds of words I had following one after another, the more the very more I had of them the more I felt the passionate need of their taking care of themselves by themselves and not helping them, and thereby enfeebling them by putting in a comma. So that is the way I felt about punctuation in prose, in poetry it is a little different but more so …" --Gertrude Stein

1. What does Hemingway's attitude toward the character of Robert Cohn appear to be? Support your answer with at least two examples from the excerpt. 2. Find an example of "vigorous English" from the excerpt. 3. How is Hemingway's love for sports represented in this excerpt? 4.Hemingway was influenced by the "stream of consciousness" style of fellow writer Gertrude Stein. Find an example from the excerpt of how Hemingway incorporated this style into his own. 5. What is the tone of this excerpt? Do you feel the story will end in a positive or negative way for Robert Cohn? Im been stuck studying for finals exams. This is for english. I found 84 questions but these got me stuck. Can anyone help please. been studying so much and the internet is a great tool. "I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together, and I always had a suspicion that perhaps Robert Cohn had never been middleweight boxing champion, and that perhaps a horse had stepped on his face, or that maybe his mother had been frightened or seen something, or that he had, maybe, bumped into something as a young child, but I finally had somebody verify the story from Spider Kelly. Spider Kelly not only remembered Cohn. He had often wondered what had become of him. heres the excerpt. Robert Cohn was a member, through his father, of one of the richest Jewish families in New York, and through his mother of one of the oldest. At the military school where he prepped for Princeton, and played a very good end on the football team, no one had made him race-conscious. No one had ever made him feel he was a Jew, and hence any different from anybody else, until he went to Princeton. He was a nice boy, a friendly boy, and very shy, and it made him bitter. He took it out in boxing, and he came out of Princeton with painful self-consciousness and the flattened nose, and was married by the first girl who was nice to him. He was married five years, had three children, lost most of the fifty thousand dollars his father left him, the balance of the estate having gone to his mother, hardened into a rather unattractive mould under domestic unhappiness with a rich wife; and just when he had made up his mind to leave his wife she left him and went off with a miniature-painter. As he had been thinking for months about leaving his wife and had not done it because it would be too cruel to deprive her of himself, her departure was a very healthful shock." -- chapter 1, The Sun Also Rises,

I would rly appreciate if anyone would help me here. im a senior about 2 graduate and its given me a alot of problems. plus seniorites. 1. What does Hemingway's attitude toward the character of Robert Cohn appear to be? Support your answer with at least two examples from the excerpt. 2. Find an example of "vigorous English" from the excerpt. 3. How is Hemingway's love for sports represented in this excerpt? 4. Hemingway was influenced by the "stream of consciousness" style of fellow writer Gertrude Stein. Find an example from the excerpt of how Hemingway incorporated this style into his own. 5. What is the tone of this excerpt? Do you feel the story will end in a positive or negative way for Robert Cohn?

To quote Gertrude Stein," a rose is a rose is a rose". Marriage is and always has been defined as the union of opposite sexes; contrary to that given by Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition in which the following is added to its 10th Edition: "(2) the state of being united to a person of the same sex in a relationship like that of a traditional marriage ".

why was Gertrude stein important to the "lost generation?

can u please explain this quote, i think i get it but im still confused what it is trying to say: "This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition." Gertrude Stein

I don't really like to read, but if the book is REALLY interesting I wouldn't mind reading it, but a too long one =x cause i read really slow. it has to be a book from a British author and the list is this: if someone can please name some books by some of these authors that are interesting and not too long (200 pages?) Monica Ali Margaret Atwood Jane Austen Aphra Behn Emily Bronte Charlotte Bronte Lewis Carroll Wilkie Collins Joseph Conrad Daniel Defoe Anita Desai Kiran Desai Charles Dickens Arthur Conan Doyle T.S. Eliot George Eliot Ford Maddux Ford E.M. Forster Elizabeth Gaskell William Golding Graham Greene Thomas Hardy Kazuo Ishiguro James Joyce D.H. Lawrence Doris Lesssing C.S. Lewis W. Somerset Maugham Ian McEwan John Milton Thomas More V.S. Naipaul George Orwell William Shakespeare George Bernard Shaw Gertrude Stein Robert Louis Stevenson William Makepeace Thackeray Evelyn Waugh H.G. Wells Oscar Wilde P.G. Wodehouse Virginia Woolf i like reading books like Brick Lane by monica ali like that keep me to the book. (but its too long =()

I read the excerpt for this but there's two questions I didn't understand. 1. Hemingway was influenced by the "stream of consciousness" style of fellow writer Gertrude Stein. Find an example from the excerpt of how Hemingway incorporated this style into his own. 2. Find an example of "vigorous English" from the excerpt. "I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together, and I always had a suspicion that perhaps Robert Cohn had never been middleweight boxing champion, and that perhaps a horse had stepped on his face, or that maybe his mother had been frightened or seen something, or that he had, maybe, bumped into something as a young child, but I finally had somebody verify the story from Spider Kelly. Spider Kelly not only remembered Cohn. He had often wondered what had become of him. Robert Cohn was a member, through his father, of one of the richest Jewish families in New York, and through his mother of one of the oldest. At the military school where he prepped for Princeton, and played a very good end on the football team, no one had made him race-conscious. No one had ever made him feel he was a Jew, and hence any different from anybody else, until he went to Princeton. He was a nice boy, a friendly boy, and very shy, and it made him bitter. He took it out in boxing, and he came out of Princeton with painful self-consciousness and the flattened nose, and was married by the first girl who was nice to him. He was married five years, had three children, lost most of the fifty thousand dollars his father left him, the balance of the estate having gone to his mother, hardened into a rather unattractive mould under domestic unhappiness with a rich wife; and just when he had made up his mind to leave his wife she left him and went off with a miniature-painter. As he had been thinking for months about leaving his wife and had not done it because it would be too cruel to deprive her of himself, her departure was a very healthful shock." -- chapter 1, The Sun Also Rises, From The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway, published 1982, Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group.

2) What were Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway (both writers) referred to as? 3) Why did sports become popular in the 1920's? 4) What was the first talkie film?

I was wanting to read a book by Gertrude Stein. Can you recommend her best title? or one that would be great to begin with... Cheers

1. Find an example of "vigorous English" from the excerpt. 2. How is Hemingway's love for sports represented in this excerpt? 3. Hemingway was influenced by the "stream of consciousness" style of fellow writer Gertrude Stein. Find an example from the excerpt of how Hemingway incorporated this style into his own. 4. What is the tone of this excerpt? Do you feel the story will end in a positive or negative way for Robert Cohn? I did the first question which asked what was Hemingway's attitude towards Robert Cohn but I can't figure out these. Thanks for any help. "I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together, and I always had a suspicion that perhaps Robert Cohn had never been middleweight boxing champion, and that perhaps a horse had stepped on his face, or that maybe his mother had been frightened or seen something, or that he had, maybe, bumped into something as a young child, but I finally had somebody verify the story from Spider Kelly. Spider Kelly not only remembered Cohn. He had often wondered what had become of him. Robert Cohn was a member, through his father, of one of the richest Jewish families in New York, and through his mother of one of the oldest. At the military school where he prepped for Princeton, and played a very good end on the football team, no one had made him race-conscious. No one had ever made him feel he was a Jew, and hence any different from anybody else, until he went to Princeton. He was a nice boy, a friendly boy, and very shy, and it made him bitter. He took it out in boxing, and he came out of Princeton with painful self-consciousness and the flattened nose, and was married by the first girl who was nice to him. He was married five years, had three children, lost most of the fifty thousand dollars his father left him, the balance of the estate having gone to his mother, hardened into a rather unattractive mould under domestic unhappiness with a rich wife; and just when he had made up his mind to leave his wife she left him and went off with a miniature-painter. As he had been thinking for months about leaving his wife and had not done it because it would be too cruel to deprive her of himself, her departure was a very healthful shock." -- chapter 1, The Sun Also Rises,

Sabrina Fair By Samuel Taylor SABRINA: Oh, I was hoping you wouldn’t recognize me! Have I changed? Have I really changed? I’m so glad to see you! David didn’t recognize me either, did you? Ah! Then I have changed, haven’t I? I don’t mean just the clothes, that was easy. But me! Myself! Do I seem different? Here now! Without the hat! (and she tears off the smart, ridiculous little hat, and shakes out her hair.) Now! How wonderful! I wanted so to hear you say that. Is that vain of me? I don’t mean it to sound vain. I just thought it would be such fun to hear you say it. Because I feel so different! It was the first thing I thought of when I woke up this morning, as the ship was coming up the bay. And then later lying in my berth, having breakfast – my last breakfast of the good French bread and that horrible coffee that I love so – I thought: (she closes her eyes and tells her dream, with a soft smile) What fun it will be… they’ll all be in the garden, in the walled garden off the terrace… and I’ll come running into them to say hello. And they’ll say: “Sabrina? Is it Sabrina? Why Sabrina, we didn’t recognize you!” (She opens her eyes and grins) And that’s the way it happened! Oh! Think if you had just said, “Oh hello Sabrina, how are you?” I’d have died (she whirls on Julia) You don’t remember me, but I remember you. I used to peek around the corners at you. You’re famous in Paris, did you know that? I kept hearing about you all the time. It seems as though everybody knows you. And they tell such wonderful stories about you, in the twenties: about you and Picasso and Gertrude Stein, and the book shop you ran, and the magazine… It must be fun to be a part of a ledged. Oh no! Paris was the most exciting place in the world then, wasn’t it? It still is! (She turns and yells.) Father? I wish you could have seen father at the station. He was completely baffled. There I was, charging across the platform at him, yelling, “Father!” and he kept looking over his shoulder to see who my father was! (she crossed to him swiftly, smiling at him lovingly.) I finally had to leap at him to make him recognize me, didn’t I? And the most terrible thing happened! I leaped too hard and knocked him down! Right there in front of all Glen Cove! ... Father! The most dignified man on Long Island! Thank goodness it wasn’t a commuter’s train. (Pause… Silent apology) It’s just that I’m so excited

I have an english speech and it is about who the "person of the 20th century" is. Here is a list of the people i need to choose from: Arts and Entertainment: Ansel Adams Stieglitz Georgia O'Keeffe Frank Lloyd Wright Dick Cavett Paul Newman Authors and Poets: Elie Wiesel F.Scott Fitzgerald Ray Bradbury Gertrude Stein Amy Tan Ray Bradbury Arthur Miller Susan sontag S.E. Hinton Social Issues: Adlai E. Stevenson Susan B. Anthony Jesse Jackson Colin Powell Betty Friedan Sally Ride Eleanor Roosevelt Jane Addams International Issues: Mother Teresa Tony Blair Mao Tse Tung Nelson Mandella Political Issues: John F. Kennedy Harry S. Truman FDR Bill Clinton Hillary Clinton Che Guevara Scientists: Jonas Salk Stephen Hawking Alexander Flemming Sally Ride Musicians: Jerry Garcia Mick Jagger Duke Ellington Madonna Micahel Jackson Garth Brooks Jimi Hendrix Athletes: Joe DiMaggio Muhammad Ali Jackie Robinson Venus and Serena Williams Tiger Woods Babe Ruth Bruce Lee Jesse Owens Jim Abbott Sammy Sosa thank you :)

Pablo Picasso was born in 1881 in Malaga. At his birth he HAD respiration problems so cigar smoke was blown into his nose. The first word of baby was Lapiz, that is pencil in Spanish language. Picasso had learned to draw before he learned to talk. He was the only son in the family and was very spoiled. Picasso detested school and preferred to stay with his father who became an art teacher in 1891. One evening the father WAS PAINTING a picture of their pigeons then he went away and left his work incomplete. When he returned he found that his work had been finished very well. The drawing was so beautiful that The father presented his job tools to the tirtheen Pablo and stopped to draw. The Picasso Style was considered brilliant by a lot of people but others remained upset by this style so eccentric. The faces were created with triangles and squares and the correct position of nose, mouth..WASN'T RESPECTED. A famous portrait MADE by Picasso is that of the american writer Gertrude Stein and one of the most famous masterpieces of modern painting is without doubt is Guernica, made in 1937, a painting that tells the bombing of the small Basque town during the spanish civil war. The work is of hard impact and describes perfectly the horror and the mounstrousness of the war. Picasso married twice and had 4 sons and many mistresses. When he married Pamola , the second wife, Picasso had almost 70 years. When Picasso reached 90 years he WAS EULOGIZED with an exhibition in the Louvre in Paris. Picasso CREATED 6000 artistic works and today they cost millions of pounds.

1.) Mahatma Gandhi 2.) Oprah Winfrey 3.) Shitsu Nakano 4.) Herbert Hoover 5.) Gertrude Stein 6.) Rory Emerald 7.) Genghis Khan 8.) Ingrid Bergman 9.) Arnold Schwarzenegger 10.) Desmond Tutu

i think on her deathbed she asked "what is the answer" and when there's silence, she asked "then what is the question?", anyone know what she meant?

I have to write a 5 to 7 page research paper on the city of Paris, France. Covering its history, culture, wars, government, and more. I just got done with the introduction, but I'm really not sure if it gives the right message. Does it defame the city I'm trying to do a report on? Does it sound horrible, or is it simply bad writing? Here it is: “America is my country, but Paris is my hometown” – Gertrude Stein Upon hearing the name Paris, several things often come to mind: the City of Lights, City of Romance, the Eiffel Tower, corner bakeries full of fresh pastries and sidewalks lined with bistro tables, among other famously trite connotations. “Paris has been described so much” noted Baron de Pollnitz in 1732, “and one has heard it talked about so much, that most people know what the city looks like without ever having seen it”. Paris, France could often be perceived as a clichéd almost banal city to try and novelize in a single paper. “One never sees Paris for the first time” concurred Italian writer Edmondo de Amicis in the late nineteenth century, “one always sees it again…”. As these remarks lead us to believe, Paris cannot be visited or looked upon now without elevated expectation. Thus because of its popularity, it confines this prodigious city to simply berets and baguettes, when there’s so much more under the surface, if you as the reader are willing to delve deeper into the intriguing history of this vivid city. - What would you change, add, or take out? Opinions? Oh and I'm a senior in high school, just so you know.

This is for an AP english comp paper . i have to read several books by each author and write a paper on the univeral theme. i want a book that will be interesting to me. I am aethiest, so it would be preferable to have a book thats main focus is not religious. thank you. Edward Albee Sherman Alexie Sherwood Anderson James Baldwin Saul Bellow Stephen V, Benet Abrose Pierce Ray Bradbury Gwendolyn Brooks Charles B. Brown William Cullen Bryant Pearl S. Buck Raymond Carver Willa Cather Kate Chopin Sanda Cisneros Walter Clarke James F. Cooper Stephen Crane James Dickey John Dos Passos Theodore Dreiser T.S. Elliot Ralph Elison William Faulkner F. Scott Fitzergerald Charlotte P. Gillman Nathaniel Hawthorne Joseph Heller Ernest Hemingway William Dean Howells Langston Hughes Zora N. Hurston John Irving Shirley Jackson Henry James Randall Jerrel Sarah Orne Jewett Sinclair Lewis Jack London Henry W. Longfellow Cormac Mcarthy Carson Mccullers Norman Mailer Bernard Malamud Herman Melville Arthur Miller N. Scott Momaday Roni Morrison Frank Norris Tim o'Brian Flannery O' Conner Eugene O'Neill Dorothy Parker Katherine A. Porter Edwin A. Robinson Richard Russo J.D Salinger Upton Sinclair Gertrude Stein John Stienbeck Amy Tan James Thurber Mark Twain John Updike Gore Vidal Alice Walker Eudora Welty Tennesee Williams Austust Willison Thomas WOlf RIchard Wright.

1) Can a sentence have both passive and active parts? 2) If you see 'was' or 'were' followed by a past participle should you always think it is passive? 3) Is this a passive statement - "Both men were living in Paris when they met Gertrude Stein". Why not? "Both men were honoured in their lifetime." 4) Is this sentence Present Perfect Passive? - "He was invited last year. I wasn't." 5) "He had wanted to become a soldier, but couldn't because of his poor eyesight" - is this passive? 6) "His final years were taken up with alcohol and drug problems" - is this passive? Thank you

I am preparing a lesson on addictions and I was wondering if you could help me find a poem on coffee. I found this one: Tender Buttons [Objects] by Gertrude Stein Thank you!

Does anyone know the full text of Gertrude Stein's poem "Sacred Emily"? I heard the line "a rose is a rose is a rose" from somewhere and I thought it was absolutely beautiful, but I haven't been able to find the poem anywhere! First person who can give me the whole poem will get 10 points. Thanks!

This poem is called "Negligible Old Star" The poem is as follows: NEGLIGIBLE old star. Pour even. It was a sad per cent. Does on sun day. Watch or water. So soon a moon or a old heavy press. ---------- In case you're wondering, no grammar or spelling errors are included. Everything is Stein's original writing. Now here's the question: what the heck is she talking about?

Okay I am a huge Rent-Head EVERYONE and their dog knows this. I have driven 8 hours to NYC Just to see some original cast members reprise their roles in rent (just to come back the next day). Did nothing else while I was there. lol. I plan to go to all 5 shows on the final tour when they are near here and drive 4 hours to Cleveland to see a few shows there too. Our first dance is going to be "Where Do I begin" by Idina Menzel (the original Maureen in the show) And our last dance will be Seasons of Love from the show too. ANYWAYS on to the question: So I want to play my all time favourite song (which is from the show) La Vie Boheme... problem it's a little dirty...okay there are parts that are REALLY dirty. lol There are no clean versions of it anywhere (it's impossible to have a clean version if you know anything about the song and the show). The only person it would offend is my grandma and her husband. Everyone else loves the song and would love dancing to it.Should I play it? It really does have a great message (especially if you know the story of the show) For those who don't know the song I'll post the lyrics: (here's the video too) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SPxtv3KW9A ANGEL Who died? BENNY Our akita MARK, RODGER, ANGEL, COLLINS Evita BENNY They make fun -Yet I am the one Attempting to do some good Or do you really want a neighborhood Where people piss on your stoop every night? Bohemia, Bohemia Is a fallacy in your head This is Calcutta Bohemia is dead MARK Dearly beloved, we gather here to say our goodbyes COLLINS & ROGER Dies Irae - Dies Illa Kyrie Eleison Yitgadal V' Yitkadash (etc.) MARK Here she lies No one knew her worth The late great daughter of Mother Earth On these nights when we celebrate the birth In that little town of Bethlehem We raise our glass- You bet your ass to- La Vie Boheme ALL La Vie Boheme La Vie Boheme La Vie Boheme La Vie Boheme MARK To days of inspiration, Playing hookey, making something Out of nothing, the need To express- To communicate, To going against the grain, Going insane, Going mad To loving tension, no pension To more than one dimension, To starving for attention, Hating convention, hating pretension, Not to mention of course, Hating dear old mom and dad To riding your bike Midday past the three piece suits- To fruits- To no absolutes- To Absolut- To choice- To the Village Voice- To any passing fad To being an us- For once- Instead of a them- ALL La Vie Boheme La Vie Boheme MAUREEN Is the equipment in a pyramid? JOANNE It is, Maureen MAUREEN The mixer dosn't have a case Don't give me that face MR. GREY AHHEMM MAUREEN Hey Mister- She's my sister MR. GREY So that's five miso soup, Four seaweed salad Three soy burger dinner, Two tofu dog platter And one pasta with meatless balls A BOY Eww COLLINS It tastes the same MIMI If you close your eyes MR. GREY And thirteen orders of fries Is that it here? ALL Wine and beer! MIMI & ANGEL To hand-crafted beers made in local breweries To yoga, to yogurt, to rice and beans and cheese To leather, to dildos, To curry Vindaloo To Huevos Rancheros and Maya Angelou MAUREEN & COLLINS Emotion, devotion, to causing a commotion, Creation, Vacation MARK Mucho masturbation MAUREEN & COLLINS Compassion, to fashion, to passion When it's new COLLINS To Sontag ANGEL To Sondheim FOUR PEOPLE To anything taboo COLLINS & ROGER Ginsberg, Dylan, Cunningham and Cage COLLINS Lenny Bruce ROGER Langston Hughes MAUREEN To the stage! PERSON #1 To Uta PERSON #2 To Buddha PERSON #3 Pablo Neruda, too MARK & MIMI Why Dorothy and Toto went over the rainbow To blow off Auntie Em ALL La Vie Boheme MAUREEN And wipe the speakers off before you pack JOANNE Yes, Maureen MAUREEN Well- Hurry back MR. GREY Sisters? MAUREEN We're close ANGEL, COLLINS, MAUREEN, MARK & MR GREY Brothers! MARK, ANGEL, MIMI & 3 OTHERS Bisexuals, trisexuals, Homo Sapiens, Carcinogens, hallucinogens, men, Pee Wee Herman German wine, turpentine, Gertrude Stein Antonioni, Bertolucci, Kurosawa Carmina Burana ALL To apathy, to entropy, to empathy, ecstasy Vaclav Havel- The Sex Pistols, 8BC To no shame- Never playing the fame game COLLINS To marijuana ALL To sodomy It's between God and me To S & M BENNY Waiter...Waiter...Waiter ALL La Vie Boheme COLLINS In honor of the death of Bohemia an impromtu salon will commence immediately following dinner... Mimi Marquez, clad only in bubble wrap, will perform her famous lawn chair-handcuff dance to the sounds of iced tea being stirred. ROGER And Mark Cohen will preview his new documentary about his inability oh he likes rent too. Not as much as I do (very few people I know do. lol). But he does love it and He was the one who said "we're playing la vie boheme right?" I hadn't even considered it til he mentioned it btw...we are also considering making it a rent themed reception. I know it sounds weird but we have some great ideas for how to work it in. The overall theme of the show is about acceptance and love anyways Pamela it's Angel who dies.

I had a report to do and my teacher couldn't make sense of it. I think it was because of the first part, but it all ties together at the end... least I think it does. The dull, off-white walls around me were calling out to me, crying, pleading for me to leave this place. As it were, I was bound by snakes that dared me to move any muscle of my body, so leaving was, sadly, out of the question. Occasionally they allowed me to stir, whether it be because they understood that I could sit still only for a little while, or because they tired of leaving me in a certain position, I do not know. That day, it was the footsteps echoing down the hall, becoming louder with every fall that sent my heart beating like the wings of a humming bird. Never before had any sign of life, other than the dwerks that teased me with their freedom, made its way to me before the scheduled war cry released by the fruns, but that day, someone came for me. The all too familiar door that connected my realm to those humans’ realm disappeared and I screamed out in fear as I always do, praying that the door may revive itself and seal off those dreadful creatures. Only thing was, this being wasn’t like all the rest, I could tell by the look in her eyes. They were small, deep brown eyes, but that was not what gave her away. When her eyes met mine, they met them. For once she was looking at me, not through me or away from me, but she saw me. Slowly, I took in the rest of her features before she could disappear, like they always do. The height, which there wasn’t much of, was the first I noticed, then her fairly plump body and pale skin. Her hair matched her eyes and was cut just short of her broad shoulder blades and her smile was mystifying, one moment gentle, the other fake and full of loath, but not towards me I knew. Sparks shot out through the air, we swam through the deepest trench, and it wasn’t until her small, pale lips, opened that a thousand questions caused me to have a concussion. The first was a highly original one, one of which deserves some sort of award for the creativity of it. “Who are you?” I asked before she could speak. Her precious smile faltered before becoming nothing but hurt. “It’s me, Gertrude Stein, don’t you remember me, love? Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania,” she waited and when I did not respond she continued. “Please now love, you must remember.” Again I remained silent and confused. “February 3, 1874, does that date mean nothing to you?” Guiltily I shook my head. “My birthday! Search into the depths of your memory!” I could not. “I’m sorry, but I have no recollection of you.” “But you, my fair Alice Toklas, were my inspiration, my partner, my editor and publisher. I wrote an autobiography, only in your name. My poems, remember them? You always loved my poems! About the strangest, most random things, food, rooms, and other objects, you must remember Alice.” I’ll admit, it was a rather interesting performance, but I just could not remember who she was. I shook my head again. This time I spoke. “What year are we?” “Oh, my love.” She sighed. “Does my presence not move you, not draw forth your attention? Are you unconcerned with me?” She did not wait for an answer. “Presently, we are at war with Japan, Germany, and Italy. Of course, I don’t write much about them, not my style. Remember you now?” Her gaze searched my expression and there she found her answer. Another sigh. “They bombed America, we met in France, and we lived there for some time, in Paris, which is where I did a lot of my work, before moving back to America. Pablo, he painted a portrait of me, Hemingway, Wilder, and Anderson, come now, you must have some idea of whom I speak of!” She was becoming desperate and searched frantically for something that would remind me of who she was. “I… I hated Roosevelt, his ‘New Deal,’ was preposterous. Franco, I adored him for fighting in the Spanish Civil War. I’m a genius for crying out loud! My work is the best thing to happen to this planet and everyone knows it’s true! Bernard Fay and the Gestapo! Remember him? Of course you do, you must!” I hesitated this time, considered the thought of going along with her story, just to please her, but I decided to stay with the truth, so I shook my head. I wasn’t expecting what came next. A poem recited by her, written by her that she called, “Glazed Glitter.” She even handed me a sheet of paper, which conveniently had the poem on it for me to read along. When she was done, more questions than before twirled around my mind. “What was the deal with the nickel?” I asked. “It simply forms the title, love.” “That’s a bit strange. Okay, so how about ‘originally rid of a cover’, what’s that supposed to be?” “It’s a metaphor really. It means that it has no concealment.” “Oh. Sure. Okay, well…” I scanned the paper before me. “When it says, ‘The change has come’ what’s that supposed to mean? What does change have to do with anything?” “Everything really, besides the fact that nickel is change,” I felt so dumb when she said it like that, thus making me realize change could have meant money wise. “It means that change has come.” “Ah.” I sounded, though I still was confused. “‘Charming’, what’s it mean in that sentence?” “It’s actually referencing to Carmen, which is a very beautiful song.” “I’m unfamiliar with this word, ‘sinecure.’” “Well, in plain English, it’s a paid job requiring hardly any work.” “But…?” “But in the sense of which I wrote it, it refers to sine cura, meaning ‘without cure of souls.’ “Why are Japanese people in here?” “It’s not referring to them of course; rather it is speaking of japanning.” “I see…” though I really had no clue, but at least we had trailed away from her trying to make me remember her, though she does seem to know me. But then, darn it all, my curiousty got the best of me. What if she wasn’t some psychotic person? What if we really were together at one point in time and I just don’t remember? Though I think I’d remember someone as stunning as she. “What else has happened between us?” She searched again, searched further into her memory then I would’ve. A smile appeared on her face and I could tell that if I didn’t remember something, then she was going to go into some sort of depression. “I had an affair with May Bookstaver. Of course, not when I was with you, but you still got so jealous when I wrote about it that you crossed out every word that had ‘may’ with ’can’, ‘day’, or ‘today’.” Everything had come to me. My love, my life, my beloved, Gertrude Stein, how could I have forgotten her?! But something had happened… something horrible… “You died from stomach cancer,” my tears began to pour out and life ceased to have meaning. I choked as I finished, “1946… July 29… in Paris.” Once again everything clicked. Wait a minute. I thought to myself, my brain working frantically, Gertrude was always my favorite poet, crazy woman, and I’ve always dreamt of marrying her, but she’s not of my time and I’m not Alice. My walls ceased to call out to me, Gertrude took form of some horribly disfigured being, which I slowly began to recognize as my doctor. The needle had just been taken away from my skin and I could see what I’ve been trying to avoid. I realized, for the hundredth time that I had been in a straight jacket, only allowed off after I take my medicine and always put back on before I go to sleep.

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