![]() Gertrude Stein always speaks of america as being now the oldest country in the world because by the methods of the civil war and the commercial conceptions that followed it America created the twentieth century." - "she always says she dislikes the normal, it is so obvious. "It is rather strange that she was not then at all interested in the work of Henry James for whom she now has a very great admiration and whom she considers quite definitely as her forerunner, he being the only nineteenth century writer who being an american felt the method of the twentieth century. ![]() And he was right, he had." - p.85: Stein's childhood reading the literary greats. C'est nous qui avons fait ca, he said, it is we that have created that, he said. ![]() "Mrs Stein brought with her three little Matisse paintings, the first modern things to cross the Atlantic." - "All of a sudden down the street came some big cannon, the first any of us had seen painted, that is camouflaged. ![]()
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