Gertrude Stein: Christian Bérard

Eating is her subject.

       While eating is her subject.

       Where eating is her subject.

       Withdraw whether it is eating which is her subject. Literally

while she ate eating is her subject. Afterwards too and in be-

tween. This is an introduction to what she ate.

       She ate a pigeon and a soufflé.

       That was on one day.

       She ate a thin ham and its sauce.

       That was on another day.

       She ate desserts.

       That had been on one day.

       She had fish grouse and little cakes that was before that day.

       She had breaded veal and grapes that was on that day.

       After that she ate every day.

       Very little but very good.

       She ate very well that day.

       What is the difference between steaming and roasting, she

ate it cold because of Saturday.

       Remembering potatoes because of preparation for part of

the day.

       There is a difference in preparation of cray-fish which makes a

change in their fish for instance.

       What was it besides bread.

       Why is eating her subject.

       There are reasons why eating is her subject.

       Because.

       Help Helena.

       With whether a pound.

       Everybody who comes has been with whether we mean ours

allowed.

       Tea rose snuff box tea rose.

       Willed him well will till well.

       By higher but tire by cry my tie for her.

       Meeting with with said.

       Gain may be hours.

       There there their softness.

       By my buy high.

       By my softness.

       There with their willow with without out outmost lain in out.

       Has she had her tooth without a telegram.

       Nothing surprises Edith. Her sister made it once for all.

       Chair met alongside.

       Paved picnic with gratitude.

       He is strong and sturdy.

       Pile with a pretty boy.

       Having tired of some one.

       Tire try.

       Imagine how they felt when they were invited.

       Preamble to restitution.

       Tire and indifferent.

       Narratives with pistache.

       A partly boiled.

       Next sentence.

       Now or not nightly.

       A sentence it is a whether wither intended.

       A sentence text. Taxed.

       A sampler with ingredients may be unmixed with their ac-

counts how does it look like. If in way around. Like lightning.

       Apprehension is why they help to do what is in amount what

is an amount.

       A sentence felt way laid.

       A sentence without a horse.

       It is a mend that to distribute with send.

       A sentence is in a letter ladder latter.

       Birth with birth.

       If any thinks about what is made for the sake they will

manage to place taking take may.

       How are browns.

       How are browns.

       Got to go away.

       Anybody can be taught to love whatever whatever they like

better.

       Taught of butter.

       Whatever they like better.

       Unify is to repeat alike like letter.

       To a sentence.

       Answer do you need what it is vulnerable.

       There made an assay.

       Wire on duck.

       Please forget Kate.

       Please and do forbid how very well they like it.

       Paid it forbid forfeit a renewal.

       A sentence may be near by.

       Very well in eighty.

       If a letter with mine how are hear in all. This is to show that

a letter is better. Than seen.

       A sentence is money made beautiful. Beautiful words of

love. Really thought at a sentence very likely.

       How do you do they knew.

       A sentence made absurd.

       She is sure that he showed that he would be where a month.

       This is the leaf safe safety.

       This is the relief safe safely.

       A joined in compel commit comply angle of by and by with

all.

       Sorry to have been shaded easily by their hastened their

known go in find.

       In never indented never the less.

       As a wedding of their knowing with which whether they

could guess.

       Bewildered in infancy with compliments makes their agree-

ment strange.

       Houses have distributed in dividing with a pastime that they

called whose as it.

       Bent in view. With vein meant. Then at in impenetrable

covered with the same that it is having sent.

       Are eight seen to be pale apples.

       A sentence is a subterfuge refuge refuse for an admirable

record of their being in private admirable refuge for their being

in private this in vain their collide.

       A sentence controls does play shade.

       A sentence having been hours first.

       A sentence rest he likes a sentence lest best with interest.

       Induce sentences.

       A sentence makes them for stairs for stairs do bedew.

       A sentence about nothing in a sentence about nothing that

pale apples from rushing are best.

       No powder or power or power form form fortification in

vain of their verification of their very verification within with

whim with a whim which is in an implanted hour.

       Suppose a sentence.

       How are ours in glass.

       Glass makes ground glass.

       A sentence of their noun.

       How are you in invented complimented.

       How are you in in favourite.

       Thinking of sentences in complimented.

       Sentences in in complimented in thank in think in sentences

in think in complimented.

       Sentences should not shrink. Complimented.

       A sentence two sentences should not think complimented.

Complimented.

       How do you do if you are to to well complimented. A sen-

tence leans to along.

       Once when they went they made the name the same do do

climbed in a great many however they are that is why without

on account faired just as well as mention. Next they can come

being in tears, governess a part of plums comfort with our

aghast either by feel torn.

       How can whose but dear me oh.

       Darling how is George. George is well. Violate Thomas but

or must with pine and near and do and dare defy.

       Haynes is Mabel Haynes.

       What was what was what it was what is what is what is is

what is what which is what is is it.

       At since robbed of a pre prize sent.

       Tell a title.

       What was it that made him be mine what was it.

       Three years lack back back made well well willows three

years back.

       It never makes it bathe a face.

       How are how are how are how are how are heard. Weak-

ness is said.

       Jay James go in George Wilbur right with a prayed in de-

gree.

       We leave we form we regret.

       That these which with agrees adjoin comes clarity in eagle

quality that periodic when men calls radically readily read in

mean to mention.

       What is ate ate in absurd.

       Mathilda makes ours see.

       An epoch is identical with usury.

       A very long hour makes them hire lain down.

       Two tempting to them.

       Follow felt follow.

       He loves his aigrette too with mainly did in most she could

not newly instead dumb done entirely.

       Absurd our our absurd.

       With flight.

       Take him and think of him. He and think of him. With

him think of him. With him and with think with think with

think with him.

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Public Domain

Source: Portraits and Prayers (Random House, Inc., 1934)

Gertrude Stein (1874 – 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh), and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. She hosted a Paris salon, where the leading figures of modernism in literature and art, such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson and Henri Matisse, would meet. In 1933, Stein published a quasi-memoir of her Paris years, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, written in the voice of Alice B. Toklas, her life partner. The book became a literary bestseller and vaulted Stein from the relative obscurity of the cult-literature scene into the limelight of mainstream attention.