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Covering Sets

Saturday, March 8, 2008

So, I’ve been thinking lately about repetition. For a while I was trying to figure out at what point repetition might stop acting as simple duplication and become a prescription of the duplicating act itself. To take “A rose is a rose is a rose” for example: Stein herself has used it other places with […]

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Gertrude Stein and Nouns

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

In her pursuit of finding “a way of naming things that would not invent names, but mean names without naming them,” Gertrude Stein made the following statements (among many others) about nouns:
“Things once they are named the name does not go on doing anything to them and so why write in nouns. . . […]

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