Title:  Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories

Author:  Gertrude Stein

Release Date:  April 11, 2005 [EBook #15600]

Language:  English

Character set encoding:  ASCII

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Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories

Gertrude Stein

[Transcriber’s Note:  All apparent spelling errors, possible typos, and one (missing?) period have been checked against the images used for transcription, and left as found.  This transcription was made from a modern edition, and it is not clear if these oddities were intended or introduced.  Please consult an authoritative edition before quoting from this transcription.]

Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein

Also known as:  G.M.P.

With Two Shorter Stories

A long gay book 1909-1912
many many women 1910
G.M.P. 1911-1912

A LONG GAY BOOK

When they are very little just only a baby you can never tell which one is to be a lady.

There are some when they feel it inside them that it has been with them that there was once so very little of them, that they were a baby, helpless and no conscious feeling in them, that they knew nothing then when they were kissed and dandled and fixed by others who knew them when they could know nothing inside them or around them, some get from all this that once surely happened to them to that which was then every bit that was then them, there are some when they feel it later inside them that they were such once and that was all that there was then of them, there are some who have from such a knowing an uncertain curious kind of feeling in them that their having been so little once and knowing nothing makes it all a broken world for them that they have inside them, kills for them the everlasting feeling; and they spend their life in many ways, and always they are trying to make for themselves a new everlasting feeling.

One way perhaps of winning is to make a little one to come through them, little like the baby that once was all them and lost them their everlasting feeling.  Some can win from just the feeling, the little one need not come, to give it to them.

And so always there is beginning and to some then a losing of the everlasting feeling.  Then they make a baby to make for themselves a new beginning and so win for themselves a new everlasting feeling.