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Tag Archives: Gertrude Stein
Rejoyce. It’s Bloomsday.
Some men send flowers to commemorate an anniversary. James Joyce wrote Ulysses. Overachiever. On June 15, 1904, young James Joyce sent a note to Nora Barnacle, who was a waitress at Finn’s Hotel. Barnacle (what an apt name) was a … Continue reading
Posted in Books, James Joyce, On This Day, writers
Tagged Bloomsday, E.M. Forster, Edna O'Brien, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Ford Madox Ford, Frank McCourt, George Bernard Shaw, Gertrude Stein, Ireland, John Banville, Katherine Mansfield, Stefan Zweig, Sylvia Beach, T.S. Eliot, Ulysses, Vladimir Nabokov, W.B. Yeats, William Carlos Williams
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The Books: Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery; ‘Testimony Against Gertrude Stein,’ by Jeanette Winterson
On the essays shelf (yes, there are still more books to excerpt in my vast library. I can’t seem to stop this excerpts-from-my-library project. I started it in 2006!) NEXT BOOK: Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery, a collection … Continue reading
The Books: The Flower And The Nettle: Diaries And Letters Of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1936-1939
Daily Book Excerpt: Memoirs: Next book on the Memoir/Letters/Journals shelf is Flower And The Nettle:: Diaries And Letters Of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1936-1939 Even just looking at the dates of these journals gives me a shiver of dread. The cataclysm … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Charles Lindbergh, Germany, Gertrude Stein, Memoirs, war
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“Human symbiosis”
The most complete example of human symbiosis I have ever seen. — Edmund Wilson to John Dos Passos on Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas
“very slowly”
A past master in making nothing happen very slowly. — Clifton Fadiman on Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein is annoyed
Gertrude Stein had this to say: “Joyce is good. He is a good writer. People like him because he is incomprehensible and anybody can understand him. But who came first, Gertrude Stein or James Joyce? Do not forget that my … Continue reading
A Dispute
T. S. Eliot said, after reading Ulysses: “He single-handedly killed the 19th century.” (This way pissed Gertrude Stein off, because she was already convinced that SHE had killed the 19th century.)