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Gertrude Stein: Collage and Code

While T.S.Eliot was skulking about in green face powder, Gertrude Stein was communing with Cubists and inventing linguistic collage. And…

4 years ago

In the Salon with Gertrude Stein

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really…

4 years ago

A Little Called Gertrude Stein

There, there, said the parent to the anguished child whose ice cream fell to the gutter. There! There! said the…

4 years ago

Imagine My Outrage

I used to have a really huge garden with hundreds of feet of soaker hose and a TroyBuilt Pony rototiller…

4 years ago

Roadside Attractions

The frogs were in fine parliamentary form this morning. Nothing like a heavy downpour to cheer them right up. Rabbits…

4 years ago

Out of the London Mud Come the London Cabbages

A friend is reading Steven Johnson's The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science,…

4 years ago

Where I Am At

I like to learn and one of the things I have learned is that I really don't like being taught.…

5 years ago

The Fifth Fact

There's a move afoot to rename the ten American military bases named for Confederates No more forts named for the…

5 years ago

For Marty, After All

Good friends, gone now. Their photographs on my wall. Until some stranger takes them down, throws them away. No reason…

5 years ago

Groceries Get Delivered, Learning Does Not

Knowing that as far as our Federal Government is concerned I am - along with pretty much everyone else - …

5 years ago