The Geographical History of America by Gertrude Stein

Author:Gertrude Stein [Stein, Gertrude]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-82443-1
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2013-01-16T00:00:00+00:00

Part II

This whole book now is going to be a detective story of how to write.

A play of the relation of human nature to the human mind.

And a poem of how to begin again.

And a description of how the earth looks as you look at it which is perhaps a play if it can be done in a day and is perhaps a detective story if it can be found out.

Anything is a detective story if it can be found out and can anything be found out.

Yes.

The human mind cannot find out but it is in it is not out.

If the human mind is in then it is not out.

Now in the first detective story the human mind does not count.

No. one. A detective story.

Detective story number one.

Do you remember no you probably did not read that part I remember because it is true not because I said it before but because it is so if it is so.

And so it is never necessary to say anything again as remembering but it is always said again because every time it is so it is so.

That is the difference between writing and listening.

When you write it is so when you listen it is not so because of course when you listen it is not so and when you speak well of course when you speak it is not so anybody knows that it is not so that when you speak it is not so.

And therefore there are strong silent men.

If not why not.

But anyway anybody can know that what you say is not so.

So what is so.

Anything is so that is so and that is what makes a detective story fascinating that if it were so it would be so.

I am going to write one.

Listen Detective story number I

If it is so is it so.

Or if it is not so is it not so.

But if you say so if anybody says so is anything so.

And if nobody says so is it so.

Is it so if you are writing. Yes it is so if you are writing because if you are writing how could you be writing if writing had not been learned. And so since it is learned since writing is learned it is so if it is written.

Now in talking well talking has not been learned so anybody talking is anybody talking and anybody talking has nothing to do with it being so.

How do you like a detective story if nobody is either dead or not dead.

You like it very well if it is written but if it is not written if it is not written everybody is dead.

Of course sometime everybody is dead but what has that to do with writing. Nothing at all. But with talking it has everything to do with talking. So you see talking has nothing to do with anything being so because everybody can come to be dead and so what is the use of saying that talking has anything to do with anything being so.

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