made a mistake, he said the only thing he wished his son to have was the power of clearly expressing his ideas. Not at all. It is not clarity that is desirable but force.
Clarity is of no importance because nobody listens and nobody knows what you mean no matter what you mean, nor how clearly you mean what you mean. But if you have vitality enough of knowing enough of what you mean, somebody and sometime and sometimes a great many will have to realize that you know what you mean and so they will agree that you mean what you know, what you know you mean, which is as near as anybody can come to understanding anyone. (HJ, FIA 127)
PATRICIA MEYEROWITZ
New York City
References Used in the Introduction (in the sequence in which they are quoted)
LIA
LECTURES IN AMERICA (1934)
Beacon Press, Boston, 1957
EA
EVERYBODY’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY (1936)
Vintage, New York, 1973
WAM
WHAT ARE MASTER-PIECES (1922-36)
Conference Press, Los Angeles, 1940
GMMA
The Gradual Making of the Making of Americans (1934)
GCA
Genuine Creative Ability (1930)
PRIMER
A PRIMER FOR THE GRADUAL UNDERSTANDING OF GERTRUDE STEIN
Ed. Robert Bartlett Haas
Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1971
CAE
Composition As Explanation (1926)
PENG.
GERTRUDE STEIN: WRITINGS AND LECTURES 1909-1945
Ed. Patricia Meyerowitz
Penguin Books, Inc., Baltimore, 1971
TI
A Transatlantic Interview (1946)
WIEL
What Is English Literature (1934)
PAG
Poetry and Grammar (1934)
HTW
HOW TO WRITE (1927-31)
Plain Edition, Paris, 1931
HJ
Henry James (c. 1932)
FIA
FOUR IN AMERICA (1932-3)
Yale University Press, New Haven, 1947
SAVING THE SENTENCE
Qu’est-ce que c’est cette comédie d’un chien. Que le dit train est bien celui qui doit les conduire a leur destination. Manifestement éveillé.
When he will see
When he will see
When he will see the land of liberty.
The scene changes it is a stone high up against with a hill and there is and above where they will have time. Not higher up below is a ruin which is a castle and there will be a color above it. Painting now after its great moment must come back to be a minor art.
Will be welcome.
We will be welcome.
Should be put upon a hill. Across which it is placed upon different hills. Lower hills have a mark they mean.
When a dog is no longer a lap dog there is a temporary inattention. Then they will seem to be sent together. It is a noise not of tapestry but of wood which when lighted in three logs makes a fire.
It makes it do that they do cry when in an assistance.
What is a sentence. A sentence is a part of a speech.
A speech. They knew that beside beside is colored like a word beside why there they went. That is a speech. Anybody will listen. What is romantic. I was astonished to learn that she was led by her head and her head was not with her head her head was leading when her heart stood still. She was certain to be left away with them. Dear Christian you are very sweet without hope. Hope is for you.
A blue sky can reflect in a lake.
Speeches are in answer.
We will enjoy with and without that it is said that they do present well.
Buy me a present.
Better than all for the best.
Now in thinking.
The scene opens and they have a valley before them.
Francine which is a name of a young woman who has changed very much in five years hoped to be married that is not hoped but attended to the waiting which was not intentional she was very well occupied. When it came to friendship she said after all marriage meant that they were eager and marrying. And they were without any pleasure in not arranging their wedding. Will it be soon. They will be married after waiting two years during which time they had not become acquainted with one another as they had as often met before. It is a failure in a way it is a failure.
A hill which we see before as often.
We are finally with me.
When this you see will he. A plain case of separation. Will she separate well from him. Well from him is what he thought.
Around Rome.
Rome is a capital. With