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artist as GS was you never think about the totality of anything when you create. You are always concerned about the parts the stitches or potatoes as GS calls them. The step by step assembling of units which may lead to a form but is never conceived at the beginning unless it is one that you personally invented and arrived at.
    I am having it. Is that a possible tense. No it is not. (106)
    A narrative might be why they visited one another one earlier and one later. (228)
    What is it. What is it. A narrative, a conclusion a narrative comes to be to tell everything to them simply they had to have their coming to be seen that each cup not each saucer had a wild animal upon it. How many cups not only cups and saucers have to be following when they have had no opportunity for further display. No opportunity for further display. It might often be that they liked that. Every day it came to be darker at four than at five. And so forth. (229)
    A narrative is the telling about simple things like coming to visit and seeing cups with a wild animal painted on them. Really it makes no sense to rephrase GS although doing it sometimes helps to know what she was doing. Is it possible that the only way in which to understand a painting is to try and reproduce it yourself and become involved in all the actions and decisions of the painter. Maybe.
    Bother is a word that transgresses meaning. (108)
    Forget grammar and think about potatoes. (109)
    Or think about words now instead of grammar.
    Back to thinking about grammar.
    Grammar. Fills me with delight. (106)
    I am a grammarian I do not hesitate but I rearrange prepositions. (109)
    What are adverbs. . .. An adverb is a change. (117, 118)
    A noun is the name of the calling which they have made in their time as known. (121)
    How can I possibly say that any better than GS says it. A noun is the name that you call anything by as it is known by that name at a given moment in history. That does it but I did not invent the idea and my saying it does not have thirty years of writing experience in it. Being an artist takes time. A lot of time which has to pass doing it and then it comes out smoothly so that anyone thinks he can do it. But he can’t because it takes ten and twenty and thirty years of doing it to be able to do it.
    Think in stitches. Think in sentences. (138)
    Stitches are individual words like potatoes. Units.
    A sentence has a as an article the as an article an as an article. A sentence has also a pause before they go. (136)
    That’s clear enough.
    What is a sentence. . . . A sentence is made of a verb and a noun. (138)
    Think of a sentence. Start a sentence begin a sentence with with. With them. They went with them. . . . All this is when a sentence is after all made in advance as they think. With that they are not able to remain behind. (174)
    All that precedes demonstrates sentences made at the time of thinking. That is thinking and writing done together so that no part of you or the action is separate or behind any other part.
    All around these words and sentences are the actual expressions of GS thinking about these things. HOW TO WRITE is a concentration of GS thinking about words, sentences, paragraphs, grammar and narrative. There is no better way of understanding it than by trying it yourself. If you sit down and copy out sentences that you like you can really begin to feel the woman, the thought and the feelings that go into her work. It is a spontaneous creation of writing thinking and feeling all done at the same time. A remarkable achievement that leaves you with a feeling of gratitude that there always have been and hopefully always will be a few dedicated and serious artists who no matter what difficulties there are will somehow manage to be creative and vitally productive all their lives. They do it and they are examples for those who follow.
    Thanks GS.
    My writing is clear as mud, but mud settles and clear streams run on and disappear . . . (EA 123)
    Mr. Owen Young