Pigeons on the grass, alas

Loving repeating: Gertrude Stein again again again

Gert went yesterday to the sweet, funny, raunchy musical Loving Repeating by  Frank Galati, based on the life and writings of Gertrude Stein.

Sunday slice: Gertrude Stein again again

Here is another extract from the unpublished manuscript of Gertrude Stein unearthed by our colleague Denis Kodaly.  Previous posts were on May 14 and June 11.

Gertrude Stein on sense and nonsense

Nonsense is sense. Sense depends on placement. Entirely on placement. Place nonsense wherever and it becomes sense, or at least Kansas City.

Gertrude Stein – a previously undiscovered manuscript

     

 

Gert has a brother known, and not known, as Denis Kodaly, an inveterate snapper-up of literary trifles.  By a bizarre series of coincidences beginning in a Parisian fish shop and ending in a part-time taxidermist’s rooms in Kansas City, he has come upon a manuscript referred to in Oscar Trerty’s magisterial  “Marble Brain – a life of Gertrude Stein” but not previously found in spite of the efforts of Stein scholars. We reproduce here a short  extract.

Don’t argue with me, Hemingway….

       Enrique Vila-Matas Never any end to Paris  (New Directions, 2011)

 

There are few character failings worse, in Gert’s opinion, than humourlessness, and this Gertrude Stein had in spades, so Gert was quite pleased to read, in Enrique Vila-Matas’ Never any end to Paris:

…’a rose is a rose is a rose’, one of Miss Stein’s favourite phrases and irrefutable proof that even in the world’s literary hubs, people have always talked nonsense. (86)