There Is No There There

"i had a bit of time yesterday to spend at my favourite bookstore in town. i like to find a few books first then sit cross legged on the floor in the corner. i pulled one on gertrude stein and spent the next half hour travelling around europe, having drinks with hemingway, and going shopping in small french villages with alice b. toklas. I fell into the photos of french cafes, cozy art filled rooms with overstuffed furniture and lots of books. I love reading about how gertrude decided to cut her hair off, leaving her even more masculine looking than she was previously, (how daring for the time), and how she continued to write after being so heavily criticized by so many in the writing world. a true revolutionary. her writing style so strange and simple, she seemed to love the rythym of words, often repeating them over and over as if in a song." (..more)

The Wish Jar: Gertrude by Keri Smith, April 12, 2006
The Wish Jar: Explorations of the Familiar
The Wish Jar Journal: How to Feel Miserable as an Artist

"It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing". Gertrude Stein

Tenderbuttons: Gertrude Stein Online
Wikipedia: Gertrude Stein
The World of Gertrude Stein

Title quote from Gertrude Explanation page
Art: Keri Smith