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The Enigma of Gertrude Stein (thenation.com)
Oksim 23 hours ago [-]
Fun fact: my wife and I stayed in the Gertrude Stein room the American Club in Kohler, WI, and is the only reason I know who she is and clicked on this post. I'll have to listen to the podcast episode mentioned in a previous comment. https://photos.app.goo.gl/Zwssf91DhQQu7kGX8
robinhouston 22 hours ago [-]
I haven’t read much of Gertrude Stein, but I often think of her brilliantly eccentric essay on punctuation[0], and especially her musings on the nature of the semicolon, whose crux is:

“They are more powerful more imposing more pretentious than a comma but they are a comma all the same. They really have within them deeply within them fundamentally within them the comma nature.”

[0] https://www.writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/goldsmith/works/st...

bluebarbet 1 days ago [-]
Subject featured in a recent (hilarious, insightful) episode of Legacy podcast. Highly recommended.
onlyjanand 23 hours ago [-]
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