[lit-ideas] Re: American poetic scene at the beginning of 72
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 22:57:28 -0400
Am I getting old? (Yes.) Am I becoming a Yostian without
knowing it? (Who knows?)
Gertrude Stein: The one is on the table. The two are on the
table. The three are on the table. The one, one is the same
length as is shown by the cover being longer. The other is
different there is more cover that shows it. The other is
different and that makes the corners have the same shade the
eight are in singular arrangement to make four necessary.
Editor rejecting Stein's manuscript: "I am only one, only
one, only one. Only one being, one at the same time. Not
two, not three, only one. Only one life to live, only sixty
minutes in one hour. Only one pair of eyes. Only one brain.
Only one being. Being only one, having only one pair of
eyes, having only one time, having only one life, I cannot
read your MS three or four times. Not even one time. Only
one book, only one look is enough. Hardly one copy would
sell here. Hardly one. Hardly one. Many thanks. I am
returning the MS by registered post. Only one MS by one post."
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